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...literary opinion ("This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have"), a thank-you note ("Thank you for your nice present. I always wanted a pin cushion, although not very much"), or a get-well verse to teacher...
...lower than last year's model, is going in for upswept tailfins and higher horsepower, with a boost from 225 h.p. to 290 h.p. in the biggest V-8 engine. Some other changes: a pushbutton automatic transmission control and the auto industry's first air-cushion rear suspension, which cushions road shocks with two tiny, air-filled tires mounted vertically at the front of each rear spring...
...past, Wessell said that student wives had served as a cushion which the University relied upon when secretaries were scarce. At present, however, he noted that there are "either fewer student wives, or fewer of them need...
...wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark), a fallen woman (Anita Ekberg) who is on her uppers-a condition which, n the shapely case of Actress Ekberg, eaves her with plenty to cushion her fall. Pretty soon a storm comes up, and he plane goes down in a jungle inhabited by headhunters. Everybody is terribly worried, of course, as well they may be. Perhaps they remember the 1939 version of this movie called Five Came Back. Since there are eleven of them, things...
...book's more remarkable episodes concerns Author Lytton Strachey, like Garnett a pacifist. Summoned before a tribunal that was examining conscientious objectors for good faith, Strachey appeared, surrounded by his family and padded against the reality of hard benches with a private, pale blue air cushion. Asked the tribunal's spokesman: "What would you do, Mr. Strachey, if you saw an Uhlan attempting to rape your sister?" Whereupon, as Garnett tells it, "Lytton looked at his sisters in turn, as though trying to visualize the scene, and gravely replied in his high voice : 'I should...