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...evening after a hard day at the office, a chap named Hedges is met at the front door by Mrs. Hedges, who hands him a stiff shot of sherry and a nasty bit of news: he is now, and for several months has been, a cuckold. A bit of rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things...
...well-honed mind, Maudling had been Chancellor of the Exchequer and deputy party leader, and thus seemed the more seasoned and deserving. He was, moreover, a cut closer to the traditional Tory mold, the preferred of the party's older hands. "He's the kind of decent chap that's so much like us," observed one, contrasting him with the more aggressive Heath. Maudling's camp relaxed, confident that he would win. The pollsters encouraged them: one newspaper survey found Britons preferred Maudling to Heath...
...Peppard kill the waitress? One clue is the knavery of his wife's cousin (Roddy McDowall), who schemes to take over and sell the family's china factory. Though Peppard was once a ne'er-do-well, amnesia has instantly transformed him into a decent chap who knows he is incapable of murder and irresponsible profiteering. He finds a kindred soul in his father-in-law (Herbert Marshall), a tycoon smitten with aphasia and therefore exempted from many a dull speech. Reels later, the hero's name, his wife's pretty neck, his marriage...
...route, he shed identities like snakeskins, metamorphosing from cabin boy to pastry cook, from poet to guerrilla leader, from Parisian photo retoucher to pseudo-Buddhist monk. His name-changes alone would fill an address book (some 20 have been pinned down, ranging from Nguyen "the Victorious" to "Old Chap" Wang). But beneath the chimeric legend lies a purposeful, pragmatic Communist whose aim is the conquest of all Southeast Asia...
...breaking the sound barrier-on land. Arfons has his hero too-Jimmy Clark-and at the Indianapolis 500, he was right there, one of the first in the line of well-wishers waiting to greet Clark after his victory. "How do you like that!" said the puzzled Scot. "This chap goes 600 m.p.h. and he congratulates...