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...there are the Great Men. Churchill, de Gaulle, Petain, and especially Hitler loom up before the Clermont-Ferrand landscape. But they, too, exist as personalities in individual memories: Hitler is recalled as favoring "harmless little liaisons" over inter-marriage, claiming that his soldiers' desire to marry French women was caused "by lack of sexual opportunities." Those famous men who are interviewed, Anthony Eden and Pierre Mendes-France in particular, speak more of the times than of great events. Mendes-France, recalling his escape from prison, is reminded of the modesty of a young woman whose boyfriend propositioned her as they...
...Harmless Pastime. It is no accident that Gallery seems to be looking over Playboy's shoulder. Editor James Spurlock, 26, served three years in Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner's shop, and has installed Gallery's staff of 17 in offices opposite Playboy editorial headquarters on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue. Ronald Fenton, 38, a onetime computer franchiser who is founder and chief stockholder of Gallery Enterprises, Inc., says that "we'll work our side of the street and let them work theirs...
...company has already begun to order some tooling, which suggests that officials feel the remaining bugs can be shaken out. G.M. has also arranged to buy 420,000 ounces of South African platinum and palladium, two of the so-called noble metals that chemically transform toxic pollutants into harmless substances inside the converter chambers...
...Soft, resilient and apparently harmless, rubber balloons seem like ideal toys for toddlers; some kids even like to nibble the knot. But balloons can also be dangerous, report three Honolulu physicians in the journal Pediatrics. Drs. Yi-Chuan Ching, J. Dempsey Huitt and George Nagao say that balloons that burst while being chewed or inflated can explode with such force that fragments of rubber may be propelled back into the mouth and windpipe, causing asphyxiation. The trio base their warning on a review of a score of fatal accidents plus their own observations of two other cases. One two-year...
...selection of nooses on a silver salver. "May I suggest the silk, sir?" Tucker says respectfully. The earl accepts, and begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing. The earl, however, mucks up on this particular occasion, and Tucker discovers him dangling from the proper silk rope, neck twisted like a child...