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...performed by two women who dislike each other, who wear makeup they don't want smeared and who both resemble Bette Davis in her middle years. They approach, incline the planes of their cheeks. Three to four inches from contact, they close their eyes in a split-second transport of fraudulent bliss, and smack their lips minutely upon nothing, as if releasing little butterflies. A somewhat rarer treat: the "hair tangle," which requires a tall, long-haired woman and a shorter man; woman inclines head to offer cheek, man goes to peck cheek, woman's hair falls...
Freddie Laker-he never uses his full first name Frederick-was a poor kid who got rich by seeing new possibilities in air transport. The son of a merchant seaman who deserted the family when Laker was six, he has been hooked on flying machines ever since as a kid he saw both the Hindenburg airship and a Handley Page biplane skimming the sky over Canterbury Cathedral. He quit school at 16 and began his aviation career by sweeping floors and making tea at a flying-boat factory. He eventually went on to become both an R.A.F. pilot...
...were reserved by reporters and cameramen, but the Federal Aviation Administration banned all aircraft from the area. The execution site is a closely guarded secret. Even the five-man firing squad will not know the location until shortly before the event. Afterward, according to the plan, a hearse will transport Gilmore's bullet-ridden body to a Salt Lake City medical center; he requested that his vital organs be donated to science...
...stock of Soviet-made weaponry, which includes some 250 T-55 tanks (200 more are on order) and scores of SA-2 and SA3 antiaircraft missiles. All this comes on top of a sizable arsenal acquired since the late 1960s-including French Mirage jets, British patrol boats and U.S. transport planes-that has made Peru the leading military power on South America's west coast...
...many left-wing members of Britain's ruling Labor Party, it would have been preferable for the government to auction off some of the crown jewels. Transport Union Chieftain Jack Jones condemned the action as the squandering of a national asset. Grumped one Cabinet member in private: "It's like selling the paintings off the wall." What prompted all this indignation was the government's proposal last month to sell a substantial share of its stake in British Petroleum Co., the nation's largest industrial concern...