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...Actually, 5 ft. 5½ in. * Jimmy is still trying. The latest issue of the magazine International Teamster announces a big push for membership in DRIVE (a lobbying subsidiary of the union), offers an aromatic inducement. New members will receive free "a handsome, goldplated, perfume-filled spray atomizer, with choice of one or two highly desired perfumes, comparable to Chanel...
Booby Traps & Bridges. It is an ugly, elusive war, fought with all the clever stunts in the guerrilla's handbook, not all of them deadly. Gangs disguised as official mosquito-spray teams walk into villages to confiscate farm equipment in the name of the government; sometimes they tear up peasants' identity cards to disrupt local administration; the Communists even managed to sabotage the national census by substituting falsified lists in some areas. The Viet Cong, which is what the Communist Vietnamese are called, are everywhere: tossing grenades into isolated villages in the rice fields in the south, sowing unrest among...
...school years were marked by neither great distinction nor great popularity, but by an accident. While whooping it up at a pre-Lenten carnival parade, Quadros was nearly blinded by an exploding bottle of colored ether that Brazilians happily spray around as part of the fun. When the bandage came off, his left eye was canted out about 20°. He brooded for months, turning out tortured poetry about love, Brazil's destiny, himself...
Into an auditorium filled with some 4,000 Navy and Marine officers marched spray-fresh Navy Secretary John B. Connally Jr. to punch at the featherbed. Connally had called the meeting of every officer in the Washington area, including 65 admirals and Marine generals, to inform them that the Navy must scrape off its barnacles and gear for space-age change...
...some old world hill town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped her Waughspish satire of manners for Wodehousean huggermugger...