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...where people can get into trouble with their skis off, bears the same relation to her first two books that a B-girl does to a prostitute: its implied promise is sex in return for money, but what it delivers is merely a phony hotel room key and a whiff of perfume. A certain amount of houghmagandy does occur ("His touch on her body was the lightest she could ever imagine and it awakened every single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place...
Army & Oil. In the space of barely four years, the twin dynamos of nationalist rebellion and oil discovery have produced a button-busting boom that no city in metropolitan France can match. Since 1956, population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with...
Knowledge of RNA may lead to understanding of DNA-and few prospects are so likely to thrill the present-day biological, chemical or physical scientist, since in DNA lies the secret of heredity and its illnesses, and of life's very nature. Last week came a significant whiff of success in the study...
Wisconsin was obviously on his mind when Rayburn belittled state primaries. "Never thought much of them," he rasped. And there was a strong whiff of stop-Kennedy in his not-so-chance remarks about Bob Meyner, who has vice-presidential ambitions and 41 New Jersey delegate votes to back them up. As an Easterner and a former Roman Catholic, Meyner could never hope for a spot on Kennedy's ticket, but he might fit nicely into a double bill with Lyndon Johnson. Purred Rayburn: "We're not going around promising anything to anybody. But in my book...
...when it got a surprise assist. Russian Captain Nikolai Sologubov, who speaks no English, approached Coach Riley, gestured as if he were gasping, then mimed putting on an oxygen mask. Riley got the hint. He procured an oxygen bottle, gave Bob Cleary and his weary-legged mates a whiff. They promptly rallied for six goals and a 9-4 victory, skated off with the first U.S. gold medal in hockey. When the game was done, the man they mobbed was Goalie Jack McCartan, the sub who had become a star when it counted...