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...rules football. The show's interests are only partly eccentric, however; most of its attention goes to the American standards-football, basketball, baseball, track, swimming, and so on. It uses blimps and helicopters to film events like auto races-blimps to show the overall field and helicopters to swoop down and give an idea of the speed of the cars. It uses Aqua-Lungs to get under competitive swimmers and shoot them from the only angle that really shows their styles and turns. It has even adapted missile-tracking devices as one way to keep a camera trained...
...Hollywood, Yvette attended Catholic schools, studied for a year in Mexico City before settling down at Hollywood High School. She didn't get very far. For once upon a summer day, while horseback riding through the Hollywood Hills, she was startled to see a helicopter swoop down from the sky. Out stepped Pressagent Jim Byron ("that's spelled BYRON, as in Lord"), best known for having pasted together a puffy collage known as Jayne Mansfield...
...Sunday, Mrs. Rebekah Harkness Kean, whose great personal fortune had its headwaters in Standard Oil, invited the Russian dancers up for a party. "If they're going to be exposed to capitalism, they might as well get it all in one fell swoop," said Mrs. Kean. No one went hungry at Mrs. Kean's swoop. She lives in a 15-room duplex apartment that covers the entire top of the Hotel Westbury like a two-acre astrakhan hat. She had Russian-speaking waiters up there passing champagne and beef Stroganoff on sterling silver platters. She had Henry Fonda...
...spectators at Orange, Mass., last week, the World Sport Parachuting Championships held bleak rewards: the sight of countless parachutes floating down, enough accidents to add the thrill of danger. But for the chutists, there was the intoxicating sensation of man flying on his own, guiding his long, downward swoop through the atmosphere...
...arrests seemed to contradict Nkrumah's original pronouncement that "foreign agents" had plotted his death. Nonetheless, Nkrumah's tame Ghanaian Times reported breathlessly that the "vile trio" had in one fell swoop tried to "ride the wave of the people's patience, throw dust into the eyes of the nation, trample over the leaders' forbearance, and disrupt the cause of the revolution." Thundered Nkrumah's Evening News: "The villains have been unmasked in the persons of the arch-Judas Adamafio, the lean and lanky