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Greece at an undetermined date in the future. In Madrid there were audible sighs of relief that it was not Maria Gabriella, and even a faint wave of optimism among Spain's Royalists that the marriage might precipitate the long-dangled return of the monarchy...
...capacity for work," though at first he felt as if he were "flying legs up." He had suffered an uneasy sensation in his inner ear, he said, and though he ate his first two meals on schedule, his appetite was not normal. There was also a faint sense of psychological unease. "I knew that there was something in the nature of homesickness called nostalgia," he said, ''but up there, I found there is also a homesickness for the earth. I don't know what it should be called, but it does exist...
...cramped cockpit, a long slender wing, a stout updraft, and unending miles of sky. Given these things, plus ice to suck and fruit to munch, he will soar hawklike for hours on invisible fountains of air, wrapped in a silence so absolute that he can hear the faint whistle of a train passing below. Last week, in the 28th annual national soaring championships at Wichita's municipal airport, the pick of the U.S.'s 2,500 sailplane pilots were living the good life high above the Kansas plains...
Maysa Sings (Columbia). A Brazilian singer with a smokily wistful voice speaks of old, unforgotten loves: Something to Remember You By, The End of a Love Affair, The Man That Got Away. Occasional faint echoes of Dietrich but without the Dietrich poise...
...Judgment." After they digested their host's arguments, Nixon's guests moved from the playroom to the poolside patio to digest roast beef, nine vegetables and fruit glace. They had, in effect, been turned down. But when they left the party, they took with them one faint but sweetly sounding if. If, promised Nixon, 60 days of political soundings left them still convinced that he was the only man who could beat Pat Brown, he would reconsider and run. But, added the host with the most, "my judgment will be the biggest factor in the final decision...