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...bravado, from hilarity to gloom. Every line of his rough-weathered face ("Isn't it awful," he says, "to be 34 and look 90?") is on the defensive. He blinks, cracks his knuckles and pulls his hair as he chases worries across his mind: Will the talking records choke off his popularity in clubs? Should he order his next suit with two jacket buttons or one? Onstage he tries his best to ignore the occasional hecklers, but they get under his skin like West Indian chiggers. "I know I'm doing things I shouldn't," he says...
Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate on the filibuster battle this week. Hopefully, the perennial battle of Rule 22 then would be fought to a settlement once...
...encouraging formation of calcium deposits and slowing circulation. Eventually, says Keys, one of two things happens. A clot forms at the site, seals off the flow of blood to the heart and provokes a heart attack. Or (more commonly, thinks Keys) the deposits themselves get so big that they choke off the artery's flow to the point that an infarct occurs: the heart muscle is suffocated, cells supplied by the artery die, and the heart is permanently, perhaps fatally injured...
...That. But it is England's dark, dynamic Elizabeth Seal in the title role-indeed, as the only woman in the show-who stands foremost. Without her fresh, bright gifts for dancing and prancing and singing, and her gamine knack for being sinful yet childlike, Irma might choke a bit on its story and at the same time go hungry for charm...
...Volkswagen, partly in answer to the success of the U.S. compacts. The 1961 Volkswagen has 27 changes, mostly mechanical, but few of them are obvious to the eye. Engine power has been boosted to 40 h.p. from 36 h.p., and the Volks has a new carburetor, a new automatic choke and a bigger luggage area. Unlike Detroit. Volkswagen makes its mechanical changes throughout the year, has yet to make a major model-styling change on what is essentially a 1938 design...