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...earned $283,000 for French Hotelman François Dupre, who owns Paris' Plaza-Athenee, Montreal's Ritz-Carlton, a breeding farm in Normandy and a string of 60 race horses. Dupre's jockey for the International: Yves Saint-Martin, France's top rider, a vise-handed craftsman who, at 21, already ranks with the world's best. Even so, Match II went out as a 6-to-1 long shot...
...longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...
Daily News and the Herald Tribune, all morning papers, are generally regarded as the only good newspapers in town. But the Herald Tribune is locked in a vise between the Times and the News, and the city's fourth morning paper, Hearst's tabloid Mirror, is dangerously close to death...
...backbone of the Miniature Mechanic, a magazine for which he writes articles on the tiny models of locomotives, generators, planes, and assorted engines he himself designs. At the drop of a soldering iron or the wrong twist of a vise, like-minded hobbyists from Havana to Hong Kong lay their problems on the workbench of this toolroom Da Vinci. Patiently, Keith answers each letter. Just as patiently, he seals a little copper box of his sister's "trinkets" in the ballasting of his brother-in-law's yacht, and agrees to take care of the couple...
While the belly laughs are few, the chuckles are frequent in The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and as its redoubtable hero might put it, "by Keplen. high-tone crititzizink is a vaste time. Tsplit infinitifs, I got; wrong tanses, like-vise; dobble nagetifs, also. Hau Kay? Enjoy...