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...world is too much with them. La Alba's common touch has drawn deep frowns from the Queen, and to save Goya's neck, the duchess renounces his attentions and ships him back to Madrid. Feverish at the thought of her fickleness, he churns out the agonized, hellborn Caprichos. In the end, the lovers are briefly, sentimentally reunited at the duchess' deathbed...
Good or bad, adult or infantile, psychological or just physical, the TV western is the No. 1 talking horse of the average trail-feverish American. A man in Pennsylvania, angered when his wife turned off Have Gun, Will Travel while he was watching it, ran for his revolver and took a shot at her. (He missed.) In Florida one priest bet another that Marshal Matt Dillon was faster on the draw than Paladin-loser to say early Mass on Sunday. Tie-in sales of toys suggested by TV westerns are expected to hit $125 million this year. And at last...
...dream," fumes Walter, "and his wife says, 'Eat your eggs.' " Walter has the money virus; he is feverish for a partnership in a liquor store. But all the Younger dreams revolve around the $10,000 insurance money that widowed Mother is to receive. When the fateful check arrives, Mother asks little Travis to count the zeros, and then plunks down $3,500 in part payment for a house in the suburbs-an all-white suburb, as it happens. After a thwarted Walter takes to drink, and lets his pregnant wife consult an abortionist, Mother Younger gives...
...Campaign Speech. The blowup came on the fourth day of the visit, when Macmillan's back was turned. Though feverish from a nagging cold, Macmillan dutifully allowed himself to be bundled off to the Soviet bloc's Joint Nuclear Research Center at Dubna, 95 miles south of Moscow. With Macmillan safely out of the way, Candidate Khrushchev-running unopposed for the Supreme Soviet of the Federated Russian Republic in this week's "elections"-delivered a campaign speech that shook the Western world (see above...
...told that one of his four closest friends and associates is a secret enemy of the state and must be ferreted out. Comrade Nemeth must choose between 1) his best friend. 2) his fiancee-mistress. 3) a religious-minded old spinster. 4) a battle-scarred party veteran. Feverish with party zeal. Nemeth first fingers the religious old lady as a "reactionary clericalist...