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...jacketed his whims and quelled his temper. When he walks absentmindedly in the garden, she runs after him with a forgotten topcoat. Loyally, she says she is the only member of the family who thinks Charlie is funny. She talks very little; he never stops. Her fondness for him comes close to worship; she has a closet full of Balenciagas, but she often dresses severely, perhaps to appear nearer her husband's age. Around the house, she wears slacks and sweaters, her hair rubber-banded in a ponytail. Terribly shy, she hates to leave the grounds. Oona...
...nearly in half. A woman wearing dark glasses screamed, "Stop firing! My God, we're French . . .!" Then she stood quietly, holding her side, while blood flowed beneath her topcoat and down her legs. Her glasses started to fall off, and she reached up and carefully replaced them. Suddenly, she toppled, dead...
...shed new light on the transmission of hereditary traits in mammals and on the origin of genetic abnormalities. After experiments with the sperm of fish and fowl, rabbits and bulls, the Manhattan researchers carefully washed the human sperm to rid it of enzymes, then treated the DNA tough protein topcoat with a chemical that freed the 400,000 chainlike DNA molecules for examination...
Raised Hands. At last came the event that Jack Kennedy had awaited so long and worked so tirelessly to bring into reality. To the ring of fanfares he arose, removed his black topcoat, stepped forward with Chief Justice Earl Warren and, over a closed, family Douay Bible, repeated his oath in a clear, crisp voice. Whatever lay ahead of him. this would always remain the high moment of John Kennedy's life...
...recreation hut in Squaw Valley's Olympic Village was a wall-to-wall mob scene of vividly dressed, ruddy-cheeked young athletes, gathered there from 30 countries for the 1960 Winter Olympics. In their midst a smiling, fragile-looking woman in a ruby-red suit and a black topcoat struggled to keep her footing. As two waves of muscular young men converged on her, someone called out: "Can you breathe?" Breathing hard, the Second Lady of the Land nodded, finally succeeded, by holding her pen at chin level, in writing her autograph for an eager French athlete...