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Quick to admit that his collection is far from comprehensive, Billy plans to augment it with new purchases. He has his eye on works by Picasso, Arp, Moore, Lehmbruck and Brancusi. Last week he announced another collector's gift of Chaim Gross's The Performers, said he would "adore to get more contributions." He concedes that he will miss his host of silent, carved and cast friends. But at 60, Billy is thinking of posterity and has no regrets. Says he: "What was I going to do with these two-ton knickknacks-leave them to my sister Polly...
...every minute, 'No, get your heels down,' the muscles in your calves stay long and supple." The north half of Shirley's body, she admits, "is not exactly Marilynish. In the movies and on TV, they always try to make me look bigger. But if I augment myself up there, people won't notice my legs, and my legs are supposed to be very nice...
...Batista decided that his regime's future lay with cops rather than conciliation, the army announced that it would augment its 22,000-man force by calling up another 7,000 recruits...
...soon as missiles are ready they will augment our bombers and at some later date they probably will replace part of our bombers," Lemay told reporters...
With an invaluable one-goal lead and the winds again at Harvard's back at the start of the second half, Coach Bruce Munro decided to switch to a more defensive game, gambling on a 1 to 0 win. The halfback line withdrew more often to augment the fullback strength, and the two insides played farther back to meet the Princeton forward line where the halfbacks normally would have...