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Still, Poteet has always been jealous of Steve's girl friends, is obviously in puppy love with the colonel. What is more, Caniff realized with a start last summer that Poteet was getting too big for her skin-tight blue-jean britches. Says he: "She was becoming increasingly curved in all the right places." Playing it safe, Caniff will never bring Poteet back as a wide-eyed kid in a cowboy hat. When she does reappear some time next year, Poteet will be hovering on the edge of womanhood. Cartoonist Caniff is even now pondering his next problem: Should...
Time for a Raise. Ely's boss, General Charles de Gaulle, posed a problem to NATO too. Endlessly jealous of French prestige, De Gaulle more than a month ago sent off private letters to Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Their contents remain secret, but their gist was leaked out: France should be admitted to equal partnership with Britain and the U.S. in a kind of informal three-power NATO dictatorate in world affairs. "Unacceptable." cried Bonn. "Wounds the feelings and the rights of Italy." complained Premier Amintore Fanfani. The French Foreign Office blandly assured...
Escape. To escape from the jealous clutch of the earth's gravitation, a departing object must move faster than any bullet ever fired from any gun. Escape velocity is given theoretically as about 25,000 m.p.h.-the speed that an object would reach if it fell from an infinite distance to the earth's surface under the exclusive influence of the earth's gravitation. Since this speed is impossible in the earth's dense lower atmosphere, a rocket headed into space must start slowly and speed up to escape velocity only after it has climbed above...
...revolt, for as Valeria looks at herself, she also begins to see others. She discovers her husband's failure as man and lover, her son's weakness. She secretly despises her son's pretty and docile fiancee, is candid enough to guess that she is actually jealous of her independent daughter. As life at home becomes unbearable, Valeria's office job begins to seem like a kindly refuge. And when her rich and thoughtful boss makes the inevitable proposition, her disillusionment becomes his strongest ally...
...when such an invitation could be taken to mean one thing only," nowadays a man never can tell. So, while Marie cooks, her visitor paces. Staring through the window, he spots "two slack dead pairs of men's socks" on a laundry cord-and instantly he is jealous...