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...prominent French men and women came from what could be classified as the working class. Nor can the French worker reasonably hope that his offspring will inherit the chance for upward mobility that he was denied. For the vast majority of lower-class children, education ends at about 16, whereupon apprenticeship begins. Only 10% of French university students come from the working class, and many of those few fail to get through the maze of exams to the final degree so necessary for admission to the French Establishment...
...record soared on the English bestseller charts. As soon as English audiences got a look at them, London hairdressers began featuring "the Experience Look." Last year, Jimi doused his guitar in lighter fluid and set a match to it on the stage of California's Monterey Pop Festival, whereupon his career in the U.S. heated up too. His first LP was No. 6 on the U.S. charts for a while; last week his second...
...getting endorsements from notorious gunslingers. Lou and Winifred start lowering their eyes and necklines in his direction, but the Badman brothers start raising hell. In a grand-horse-opera finale, everyone gets plugged and expires in a heap on boot hill. Infusions of Kola Loca magically resurrect them all, whereupon Joe, Horace, Doug and Lou discover that they all have matching wrist moles the size of a silver dollar. The reunited family promptly announces a merger and invents a compromise drink called Whiskola, while Joe and Winifred happily clop off into the sunset...
Eventually, Hepburn realizes that she has allowed herself to become a helpless victim of The Mob-trapped in her apartment, the phone line cut, the neighbors gone, friendless, sightless and alone. Whereupon the most malevolent criminal advances on her, knife in hand. She throws some of her husband's hypo in his face, temporarily blinding him. Then, to provide the great equalizer, she extinguishes every light in the house. Hunter and prey slowly circle each other, waiting in the dark. Suddenly he remembers the one overlooked illumination and opens the refrigerator door...
Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...