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Collins polled 67,000 votes out of 123.796 east, according to an unofficial tally. City Councillor Gabriel F. Piemonte, with 27,433 votes, came in second, but Collins's decisive margin makes it almost certain that the mayor will win another four-year term in the final election...
...raised my hand - my trembling hand, gripping my heart as handkerchief and waved and waved - and waved - but she turned her eyes away. -Gabriel Okara (Nigeria...
Chasing the Men. After the fiasco, Russian Coach Gabriel Korobkov mildly suggested that some U.S. athletes seemed to be in need of "a good training." He undoubtedly meant a good spanking. Serenely overconfident, the U.S. men were ill-prepared for the ruggedness of the competition. The U.S. girls logged more time playing cards in the hotel lobby than they did practicing on the track, more time chasing the U.S. men than chasing the Russian women. They refused to take orders, lounged around listening to records, complained loudly about their rooms, their food and, oddly enough, about the fact that...
...time reducing machines, who parleyed his jiggling "Magic Couches" into a nationwide chain of 250 franchised salons before the Federal Trade Commission charged in 1960 that his machines "were of no value in reducing weight," after which business suffered a sharp decline; of a heart attack; in San Gabriel, Calif...
Caricature, Not Character. For all his crimes, Messkirch is a sympathetic character. Not so the chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get into Hitler's good graces. A cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind...