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...Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...
...their heads. Last week the New York Jets offered to take on the N.F.L.'s New York Giants "any time, any place." And up in Buffalo, where 39,621 frantic fans somehow squeezed into the 38,167-seat War Memorial Stadium to watch the home-town Bills wallop the Jets 34-24, the battle cry was: "Bring on the Baltimore Colts!" Slightly Nuts. Buffalo fans have alway been slightly nuts. As far back as 1949, 25,000 of them signed a petition promising to buy season tickets if the N.F.L. would give them a team. The N.F.L. only snickered...
DENMARK. The modern Danish restaurant has a sumptuous det store kolde bord (cold table) that includes herring, salads, lobster, salmon and eight different meats. The akvavit comes packed in ice - and packs a wallop...
...rest of the tactical atomic wallop comes in comparatively "little" packages. Yet many of these nuclear runts can carry up to a 100-kiloton load-which is five times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. These include the Army's 75-mile Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such...
...average man." At hearing that Margaret shudders slightly, smiles sweetly, and says: "I'm really a homey type." Last week she certainly seemed in a hurry to get home. At South Orange, N.J., in the finals of the Eastern Grass Court championships, she needed only 24 minutes to wallop the U.S.'s No. 1-ranked Darlene Hard...