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Math Book Muse. A slight, trim, brunette bachelor girl, Bridget Riley is now a Jill-of-all-trades in the London office of the advertising empire of J. Walter Thompson. She spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional." After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books...
Within minutes, D.P.A. flashed a blitz message-KHRUSHCHEV DEAD-to its 1,290 newspaper and radio-TV clients, chased that five minutes later with the brief text-now embellished with a Moscow dateline-that it had received from the radio station. The A.P., U.P.I., and most other wire services feverishly started checking Moscow, leaving Reuters as the only major agency that relayed the heavily qualified bulletin: KHRUSHCHEV REPORTED DEAD BUT REPORTS UNCONFIRMED...
...premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates. But seven P.M.s refused to live in No. 10's cramped quarters; between 1847 and 1877, it was completely untenanted, and then Disraeli moved in only because his gout made the trip to his office too painful. During the blitz, Churchill disconcertingly called No. 10 "shaky" and encouraged scads of cats to prowl the place to keep down the rats...
...started out looking as if he was going to blitz Salaun the same way. He ran to a 9-1 lead and then ran out the first game easily at 15-0. In the second he pulled away to a 14-12 lead, but whacked two shots into the tin and lost a three-of-Eve ofter played for the game. The players spilt the next two games, but Salaun won crucial prints at 12-15 and 22-12 to takes the east accorded...
With typical tolerance, Bombay supports the left-wing tabloid Blitz, which recently published pictures to "prove" that Lee Oswald did not shoot President John Kennedy, and also the right-wing tabloid Current, which flays Nehru and his nonalignment policies. Even Bombay's teenagers have a magazine that features Elvis Presley, twist instructions, and such articles as "Are Kissing Dates Dangerous?" Bombay is headquarters for the nation's movie industry, which turns out some 300 feature-length films a year. A recent and elaborate movie wedding in Bombay drew 10,000 guests, but none of them were considered...