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Though it was a sticky wicket, rain in Canberra did nothing to diminish a shining performance by Australian Prime Minister John Gorton. Leading his parliamentary cricket team to a hard-won 121-119 victory over the capital press eleven, the P.M. hit seven runs and bowled out one press batter with a style characterized by a newsman as "unpredictable and suspect...
...FUCK IT!" cried Carol, as her Cricket lighter jammed at Lehman Hall last week. It's a tough world, and Carol is finding it tougher all the time. I offered her a match, but she put her filtered Gauloise away, saying, "The hell with it. I've got to give up smoking anyway...
...Carol isn't about to give up smoking. Because smoking Gauloises lit by Cricket lighters is part of her life here. It is essential to her existence-as essential as her Espresso coffee pot, her subcription to the New Yorker, her four ring, her Marimekko clothing, and the lonely preppies who offer her weekend trips to the Caribbean...
...astute reader may not need to be told about the Oedipus complex, but may need to know that "the Ashes" is a term given to the five-match series between England and Australia for world supremacy in cricket. * Excerpt: "Fantong refilled two glasses with double whiskeys the colour of her skin. The doctor remembered that in his house the Commissioner's Marie was waiting-for nothing; after Fantong there was nothing left he could give to any woman...
...Fowles had it as a child, it was the only sign he did have of his future profession. The son of a suburban cigar importer, he went to an English public school. "I enjoyed it, played cricket well and was successful." In fact, he became head boy, "a very efficient little Gestapo" who punished the other boys with a cane for their misdemeanors. After school, Fowles served in the British marines, which he hated. "I also began to hate what I was becoming in life -a British Establishment young hopeful. I decided instead to become a sort of anarchist...