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Cooper nearly lost his chance to go into orbit when he became enraged at the decision last year to ground Astronaut Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton because of a reported heart flutter. Cooper offended high NASA officials by vehemently protesting the decision, threatened to quit if Slayton were not reinstated. He was persuaded not to 'bail out of the program by Astronaut Walter Schirra, who made the near-perfect six-orbit flight in October...
...East End. Since then, he has opened 16 bet shops, plans to start four more. Seeking expansion capital, Lane last week became the first British bookmaker to go public as he offered 200,000 shares on the London market at 34? each. Eager investors rushed to take yet another "flutter" with Mark Lane, and by week's end they had pushed the share price...
...large city, almost always deserted. A bird might light on a telephone wire or a tree shudder briefly by the wayside, but all else is still. The camera pans in on a woman (Jeanne Moreau? Monica Vitti? Anouk Aimee? Emmanuelle Riva?). She is doing The Walk. Her hands flutter at her skirt, her hips tip from side to side, slowly, sensually. She walks past the tree, or telephone pole, or both, or a thousand of each. Occasionally, she stops, touches a fence post, a tree trunk, a street lamp, a spiny plant-should they all be construed as phallic symbols...
With no smokestacks, the Bainbridge looks more like a sleek runabout than a warship. Oil-fueled destroyers are soon coated above and below deck with grease and grime, but the Bainbridge is as clean as an operating room. White linen curtains flutter at the portholes in the wardroom. The cabin for visiting admirals is decorated with artificial yellow roses. Contemporary paintings, presents from the Bethlehem Steel Co.. which built the ship, hang in the ship's cabins and wardrooms...
...original publication might just as well have been 1934 B.C., since at the book's appearance Greene's present obsession with God and Guilt was still submerged. The rainwater in this novel is the gelid London variety; the central occurrence, around which hints of dark guilt flutter and settle like ravens, is the murder of a policeman. The murderer, a simple, solid workingman named Jim Drover, has been sentenced to hang, despite the fact that the policeman he killed had been about to club his wife in a scuffle at a leftist rally...