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...policeman pulls in but the body rush quickly subsides when he says "I'll be needing a room about 1 a.m."?! Our switchboard is an antique which means that I have to put through all of the calls. The same policeman calls and says "Will you git this number fer me--and if a man answers--hang...
...spoiled claret or bemoan a bad shot at a grouse on the moors. After serving in the Coldstream Guards and undertaking a short, unspectacular career in business, he had retired on his $250,000 inheritance to carry on more engrossing pursuits, notably golf, skiing, the hunt and chemin de fer at Mayfair gaming clubs. His success at the tables won him the name "Lucky Lucan...
...beat down on the havoc. Stranded children suffered from exposure and sunstroke. One family was rescued after spending four days holding on to high-tension wires just a few feet above the flood waters. At least a dozen people were treated for spider or snake bites after tarantulas and fer-de-lances fled their hiding places in flooded banana groves. An estimated 100,000 people have been left homeless by the hurricane...
Among the 15 college students and teen-agers accepted as summer interns in Senator Ted Kennedy's office is a President's daughter: Caroline Kennedy, 16. For three weeks, starting in late July, Caroline will be a "go-fer," sorting mail and operating the autopen that prints Uncle Ted's signature on routine letters. According to Kennedy's press secretary, Dick Drayne, "Interns have a lot of fun. They can go to hearings, onto the floor when the Senator is there, and get to a lot of parties." He added, "and Caroline wants to be treated...
...expresses, like the Mistral, provide sumptuous meals, barbershops, bookstores, boutiques and business offices, all at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Japan's famed "bullet" trains, whooshing along on cushioned roadbeds, treat the passenger with geisha-like solicitude. When the English Channel tunnel is completed, le chemin de fer will whisk travelers from London to Paris in 2½ hours...