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Before the Big Four met, Charles de Gaulle had billed the summit as a moment when destiny would hover "between peace and vast misfortune." Destiny was still hovering...
...filming, with guarantees of $1,000 to the winning pair, $500 to the losers ($250 and $500 bonuses for small and grand slams). As Goren and TV Commentator Alex Dreier spin out a running dialogue on the bid and play from a glassed-in booth, the cameras and microphones hover over the table, picking up hands and the players' chitchat. Goren never erases his own predictions from the sound track when he is wrong, or the cardsmen's bad plays when they occur...
...peer for happy hours into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico or forest-bound lakes in Wisconsin, study the toadfish that fusses like an old lady off Long Island. Ducking beneath the surface, the strong-lunged pry abalone from the California shallows, or spear unwary fish that hover near the surface. Experts like Miami's great Pinder brothers. Art, Fred and Don (see SHOW BUSINESS ), can easily go as deep as 70 ft., stay under for up to 60 sec., and have individually landed catches as big as an 804-lb. jewfish...
...second munitions ship quickly cast off, was towed out of the danger area. Firemen worked close to the burning vessel. Then it exploded again, sending a shower of death through the crowd on the dock-and just missing Premier Castro, who had come whirling up in his helicopter to hover near the stricken ship. The initial counts put the dead at 75 to 100, the injured at more than...
...girl in suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., whose adman father ($30,000 a year) can afford to send her anywhere. He already has-to Britain, France, Italy-but she has never been west of Ohio. She writes well and hopes to be a magazine editor, but her math and science marks hover at C. Against stiff competition, she might barely get into an Eastern woman's college. But why not Northwestern, California's Mills College, or even the University of Hawaii? For her, each would offer much...