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...Updike tells his depressing and frequently sordid story with a true novelist's power. His too-explicit sexual scenes are often in the worst of taste, but his set pieces describing Rabbit's crackup, his confrontations with wife, family, mistress and imploring minister show some of the surest writing in years. Up to a point Rabbit, Run seems to be saying that this is what much of life in the U.S. is like; certainly Updike's scene and people seem too threateningly typical. Yet the real weakness of the book is Rabbit's own. Not many...
Khrushchev's presence on Manhattan island is the surest possible insurance against hydrogen bomb attack on the city while he's here. The longer he stays the better, as far as I'm concerned...
...week's end, as expected, the big squads of Russia and the U.S. stood one-two in the unofficial team standings in the 1960 Olympic Games. Top moments of the Olympics' second week: ¶ In the high jump, the U.S. thought it had its surest gold medal candidate: Boston University's lithe John Thomas, 19. holder of the world record at 7 ft. 31n. Confident as ever, Thomas seemed reluctant even to take off his sweat suit for early jumps. When the competition began in earnest. Thomas seemed safe enough. The best man of the challenging trio...
...Rose, 21, winner of both the 400 and 1,500 meters at Melbourne's 1956 Olympics, and Japan's stocky Tsuyoshi Yamanalca, 21, who has smoothed out his rough arm stroke. In the 200-meter butterfly, Indiana's bull-shouldered Mike Troy, 19, will be the surest gold-medal swimming prospect for the U.S. The world record holder (2:13.2). Troy fattens up on milkshakes and slims down with as many as three workouts...
...with the war coming on, Coco retired. In 1953, to boost lagging Chanel No. 5 sales, Pierre Wertheimer, owner of the perfumes, asked Coco to resume designing. Since then, she has proved that for all the random fads and seasonal excitements, perhaps the surest touch in fashion is still Chanel...