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Channel Storm. A plump, eupeptic medical doctor, Bombard began developing his theory in 1951, when he and a friend were caught in a storm while venturing across the English Channel in a small rubber boat. The craft tossed about for five days, and in that time Bombard and his companion had nothing to eat except half a kilo of butter they had brought along as a gift for a friend in England. This experience would have soured most men on seafaring for life, but in Bombard it kindled a consuming interest in the techniques of survival. Bombard persuaded a Dutch...
...PLUMP young woman, strolling along the path in the sun, with a face of such tranquil, unreflecting enjoyment that she seemed like one of those drunks who, at the end of the party, do not even need to smile from their trance, stopped, gazed, gradually took in the scene and at last, with a look of such conscious wisdom that it seemed to say to itself "Ain't I a clever responsible person?", rescued the baby, carried it to the rug, and carefully, maternally laid it flat on its back...
Throughout the vote, Bevan sat smugly with lips pursed, eyes straight ahead and plump fingers tipped together. Morrison was motionless. Clement Attlee stared into space, lifeless as a wax model...
...flower cards, Ichiro had lost all but half an acre of the rice land. He had to hire out to other villagers. Still, he had a docile, hard-working wife and three fine daughters, of whom his special pride was the middle one, Satsuki (May Moon). May Moon, plump, smart and 17, was an honor student at the local high school, and read Jefferson, Lincoln, Hawthorne, Goethe, De Maupassant, Wilde and Gide...
...annual Constitutional Day celebrations came Malaya's youngest potentate, who rules Malaya's smallest state, Perils (pop. 71,000), just over the Siamese border. The Raja of Perlis, a plump 31, met Riam, 27, fell deeply in love. Last May, Riam accepted the Raja's 15-carat diamond engagement ring and last month they were married...