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...Sleight of Hand. The princes, sparked by Hanwant Singh, seemed determined to make the election not only history's largest and longest, but its liveliest. Hanwant Singh, a polo player and amateur magician whose childhood dreams were realized a year ago when 600 London magicians asked him over to do some tricks for them, was proving himself a skilled political prestidigitator as well. Standing for both the national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night...
...physical condition and rhythm." After balletlike warmups, the Russians invariably pounded on to the court and confounded opponents with rifle passes, cat-quick ball handling, and a rough & ready determination to get the ball off the backboards. Best Russian play: a fast U.S.-style break, three or four sleight-of-hand passes under the basket which left the befuddled defense falling all over itself, while one of the Russian outside men dunked the ball into the basket...
...this political sleight-of-hand is not done primarily for Queuille's or his party's gain. It is merely what a French politician had to do in 1951 to get even a temporary government for his country...
...spite of these facts, the voters of Baltimore were invited last week to deny to medical schools the strays in the dog pounds which are doomed to be gassed anyway. The voters were invited also to set up a "humane commission" which, by legal sleight of hand, could have crippled research in the city on any animals...
...This sleight-of-hand performance moved the magicians to award Christopher a gold-plated statuette for "professional originality." He told them: "You have witnessed something no man has ever been able to do before: change TIME...