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...down," she orders. Then the nurses clamber up an escarpment and discover Sellers and Prentiss attempting a rendezvous on the rocks. From then on they bug Sellers, spoiling assignations and complicating the plot. They even scavenge his discarded cigarette butts and wrap them tenderly in a paper napkin. "No filter," notes Tippy. "He's not scared," observes Merrie...
...advance the art, Hal Lipset, a seasoned San Francisco private eye, maintains a laboratory behind a false warehouse front where his eavesdropping "genius," Ralph Bertsche, works out new gimmicks such as a high-powered bug that fits into a pack of filter-tip cigarettes. It is padded to feel soft and shows the ends of real cigarettes to reassure a suspicious businessman or divorce-prone spouse-provided he doesn't ask for a smoke. Bertsche believes that bugs in time may be no bigger than a pencil eraser, recorders as small as a cigarette lighter...
...priest (the novel never makes clear in what country or what faith) and never questioned his vocation until one day he hears the confession of a veiled married woman yearning for a sexual love that her husband cannot supply. As the woman's words and fragrant breath filter through the grille of the confessional, Giovanni is strangely excited. "I did not yearn to rest again in the safety of God's embrace, in his light and peace. I wanted to burn in the fire of love...
...static-filter that he invented let Vincent re-record with good clarity everything from William Jennings Bryan's cross-of-gold speech to Big Ben tolling in the 20th century to Robert E. Peary tersely describing his 1909 conquest of the North Pole. Eeriest of all: Trumpeter Kenneth Landfrey's hair-raising bugle call for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. Landfrey restaged it for Edison in 1890, using the same bugle that also screeched Wellington's troops on to victory at Waterloo...
...products to keep their main business growing. Philip Morris and P. Lorillard, taking a leaf out of Raleigh's old book, recently have begun backing some of their brands with gift coupons (47,185 Alpine coupons for a mink stole); Liggett & Myers recently brought out its triple-filter Lark brand. Six out of ten U.S. smokers have already switched to filters, and last week Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, pushed to amplify some confusing statements on the subject, said that filters offer "a promising avenue for future development...