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...Brown was helping to win the peace in his own way?as an assistant to Edward Teller, a leader in the development of the H-bomb, at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. In the next few years, Brown not only worked on the H-bomb but also helped design the first Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile, originated the Project Plowshare plan for peaceful uses of atomic energy, and served as the senior U.S. adviser at nuclear test-ban negotiations with the Soviet Union. Recalls an associate: "He was intense, bright, driving and dynamic, but neither patient nor comfortable...
...along with the camisole, which used to be the slip's better half, the corselette has gone public and come out on top. Even in staid Boston, Saint Laurent's revealing, sleeveless corselettes have been selling like $140 hotcakes at his Saks Fifth Avenue and Bonwit Teller outlets. Camisoles are just as popular. Says a buyer at Chicago's Marshall Field: "We are selling all we have." In Los Angeles, Designer Lore Caulfield says that demand for her slinky satin camisoles has been so overwhelming that she has had to ration them. In Palm Beach, where...
...MOST PLASTERED JOKE TELLER AWARD: To Norman Mailer '41, who told an incomprehensible zinger with a punch line implicating "one philosopher and two perverts," but still managed to pronounce Cousin, Cousine and Lina Wertmuller with the proper accents...
...Watch the television local news after any big bank robbery. On-camera appears the bank spokesman, mindful of the bank's image as your friendly neighbor. He describes how polite the robbers were as they trussed up the teller: no threats, much courtesy. From the spokesman comes no outrage or even indignation; perhaps the next question provides the answer to that: the bank is fully covered by insurance. The robbers are made glamorous by their victims. Fagin, were he alive, would be adding public relations courses to his school for crime...
...grizzled teller of grisly war tales is also a time traveler who discovers a new world he cannot comprehend. Lest even the dimmest reader miss Rosales' mythic overtones. Day gives him the nickname El Lobo and introduces a scene in which the hero stares pensively at a caged but still spunky wolf...