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Mixed-Up Hormones. Hollywood's Jane Bond entry is Israeli Actress Gila Golan in Our Man Flint. She is the chief operative of a sinister, SMERSH-type organization named Galaxy, which is bent on ruling the world. Gila is not hipped on personal combat, prefers to smear up the opposition with time bombs hidden in cold-cream jars. The most nonviolent Jane is Diane Cilento, the real-life Mrs. James Bond-or Mrs. Sean Connery to the literal-minded. In Once...
...arteries and leave a woman vulnerable to heart at tacks. Regular doses of estrogens, says the University of Chicago's Dr. M. Edward Davis, can delay the onset of such changes and diminish their impact. There is even a test-an adaptation of the familiar "Pap smear" for detecting uterine cancer-that indicates how much medication a woman might need. "Estrogens are not the fountain of youth," added Brooklyn's Dr. Henry S. Acken Jr., "but they may be the springs that feed the fountain...
Rusher welcomed the new crop of Southern Republicans fertilized by the Goldwater candidacy. "I reject the libel that they're rabid segregtionists," he said. "That's a very artistic smear being cultivated by the Northern liberals...
...Once. Casa Cubertini proved to be a small beach house in a remote suburb of Montevideo. Inside on the floor were two large pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
...CORNEILLE (full name: Corneille Guillaume Beverloo), 42, was born in Belgium of Dutch parents. His splats and spatters of color mash nature out flat like culture-smear samples sandwiched between giant microscope slides. "I always need to latch onto exterior reality," he says, "but I don't do any preliminary work. It's like jazz taking a theme: the rest is spontaneous, emotional creation...