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When she went to work on her final picture last year (Something's Got to Give), she had lost weight, and the close-ups that remain show the ultimate refinement of the material-gentle face, slender neck, a look of airy distance. Galatea would have been jealous...
...crowded Moscow courtroom looked very much like a spy. Dapper Greville Maynard Wynne, 44, was a salesman who lived quietly in London's fashionable Chelsea section with his wife and young son when he was not on the road selling electrical machinery in Russia and Eastern Europe. Slender Oleg Penkovsky, 44, was a much-decorated Russian war hero who recently had held the delicate job of arranging East-West scientific exchanges for a Soviet state committee. But last week the incongruous pair went on trial for espionage before a military panel of three Soviet Supreme Court generals. While klieg...
...them, asked to name the three greatest living surgeons, has difficulty in thinking of two others. Individualists down to their physical characteristics, great surgeons show that even their skilled hands need be of no particular design. Like a pianist's, they may be long and slender or broad and powerful. Dr. Moore's are of medium proportions, kept limber by playing piano duets with his children on paired Steinway grands...
...With a slender one-stroke edge to protect on the last day, Nicklaus played so slowly that he reminded fellow pros of "a turtle in leg irons." One after another, they took their shots at the big blond who had just turned 23. On the 15th hole, Sam Snead who, at 50, was playing in his 24th Masters, sank a birdie putt and learned that he had jumped into the lead. But on the next hole, Snead three-putted for a bogey and dropped back into the pack. Gary Player led Nicklaus briefly; but he bogeyed the last two holes...
...German tank, hit by a shell, stops stunned, reels backward, writhes like a colossal metal insect in torment, the turret turning from side to side like a huge head and the tip of the long slender deadly gun glaring balefully in all directions like a big evil eye on a stilt...