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...read the TIME magazine cover story too." After Buchwald failed in several attempts to find the swinging city we described (April 15), he went to the Time & Life Building on New Bond Street. There he watched correspondents watusi with comely researchers. "On each desk was a champagne bucket," he writes, "and when they saw me, someone forced a glass into my hand. 'Welcome to swinging London!' a secretary cried. I could hardly contain myself. 'Thank God, I found it at last...
Destination: office. Driving time: Beethoven's Third Symphony, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and, depending on traffic, two or three numbers by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Driver squiggles into bucket seat, straps on safety belt, injects stereotape cartridge into dashboard holder, and, to the engulfing strains of the 100-piece Boston Symphony, rolls away on wheels of song...
...Dacron tether to Gemini 11, then float over to attach the tether's other end to the Agena. With hatch closed, the crew will back off until the tether is taut, then try to create artificial gravity within the spacecraft by twirling it, like a bucket at the end of a line. The 100-ft. hobble may also prove to be an efficient method of stationkeeping with the Agena...
...some areas of the city, black-market water was bringing 24? a bucket. Ships putting into port received only enough water to get them to the next stop. Building construction ground to a complete halt. Other industries were forced to close for a day. City authorities were even discussing the possibility of evacuating many of Bombay's 5,000,000 people to less arid regions of India...
...Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...