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Scandal-starved Washington cocked an expectant ear for a star-spangled shocker when, two months ago, a House subcommittee set out to find out whether retired military officers were being hired by defense contractors to use undue influence on old friends and former colleagues in the Pentagon. Last week the House Armed Services Investigation subcommittee sat down to take testimony, produced only a couple of stars, few spangles, no scandal...
Queen in Control. The real shocker was in the women's championship, where the U.S. has ruled the roost since 1938. As the finals began, this year looked no different from all the rest. For the U.S., blonde, hefty (5 ft. 5^ in., 140 Ibs.) Darlene Hard, 23, an ex-waitress from California who fuels her hard-hitting attack with a voracious appetite ("I just can't pass up anything on the menu"), was a recognized player of championship caliber. By contrast, her opponent. Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, daughter of a Sao Paulo veterinarian, had never...
...most harmful blemish on France's good name-made news. A year ago La Question, an account of French army torture in Algeria, sold 65,000 copies, stirred up a storm of public indignation before the government banned it. Last week Paris police seized another shocker. La Gangrène, 24 hours after it rolled off the presses. Even so, thay were too late again...
...fond, mellow mood eventually turns sour. Kanin. carefully foreshadowing, leads the reader toward what should be a shocker of an ending. The combo folded, the narrator recalls, after its thunderous Negro drummer died of too many pep pills and too much whisky. Slowly, 25 years later, the sax player is made aware of a horrifying truth: one of the white bandsmen, obsessed with race hatred, deliberately fed the ailing Negro the poison that would kill...
...duty, country and humanity. In the end, with a gesture of completely incredible nobility, the major betrays his country by permitting the refugees to escape ("I would never have been able to sleep again"). Whereupon the scriptwriter suddenly remembers the freedom fighters, who are permitted to provide the shocker in the final scene. They cut the major down from ambush...