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After the day's final flight, Costen shyly accepts the $500 check and the big black and yellow world's champion rib bon from Host Evans. Two hundred T shirts have been sold, the sarsaparilla has given out and the Olympic torch is flickering low. Wiping the fried chicken from their fingers, the satisfied spectators slowly meander toward the car pasture. "See you all next year," says Evans, as a state policeman helps the campers and pickups thread in among the giant semis barreling along Route 35. From one departing truck, a rooster crows an unprintable reply. - Spencer...
...Coming Decline of the Chinese Empire were the creation of some hack novelist, it might be dismissed as turgidly written and historically inaccurate-for it is both of those-but it is in fact the work of Victor Louis, 50, Moscow correspondent for the London Evening News, world traveler, bon vivant and a man widely reputed to have close connections with the Soviet KGB. The book thus can be interpreted as a Soviet government fantasy of China's eventual political and geographical disintegration-and a rationale for direct Soviet military intervention...
...individual leaders after the first 18 were Dartmouth's sweet-swinging number one man Joe "Ugly" Henley and UConn's John Collich, who blazed in tied at 72. Dartmouth's number two man, bon vivant Gordie Daisley, missed the tourney after punching his hand through a window in a fraternity frazzle...
...bon mots flowed faster than the Clement Colombet Chablis at the American Film Institute dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., honoring bulbous Meisterzinger of Murder Alfred Hitchcock at 79. "Hitch's genius," quipped Actor John Forsythe, "is that he can put such life into death." Ingrid Bergman praised the director as "a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." Ventured Cary Grant, who managed to emerge alive from four Hitchcock epics: "The best is yet to come, Hitch." Spattered with tributes and smothered by adoration, Hitchcock observed in his familiar bullfrog voice: "Man does not live by murder alone. He needs...
...grand tour the likes of which had not been seen since young gentlemen of means packed steamer trunks and set off by luxury liner to sample the rich life on the Continent. The bon vivant strode around a stud farm discussing bloodlines and conjuring up breeding programs for the stallions of his fancy. He dined on Welsh rabbit at a lush country estate, pondering a new business deal with each course. Hobnobbing with titans of industry, he discussed ventures in pharmaceuticals, breweries and public relations...