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...sessions, collared recalcitrant lawmakers, threatened, cajoled. His technique, as he liked to explain it: "Don't write anything you can phone, don't phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink, and don't wink anything you can nod." Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time...
...slowly in a way that no star does. Why does it perform in this odd fashion? Last week the explanation came from Dr. Leonard Jaffe of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Echo's quick twinkling, said Jaffe, is caused by the same atmospheric irregularities that make stars wink. Some of its slower dimming may be due to thin patches of clouds, invisible at night-but most of it is Echo's own doing...
...Wink is a recent widower and an inveterate girl watcher. The girl is Virginia Jackson, a witchingly lovely item who appears on a neighboring Darien. Conn, porch each morning in a shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some...
Free Fall. Before he has properly begun to hope, Wink begins to grope-with Virginia's wrist watch-at the local beach club. The assembled giddy-biddies pick the pair's backbones in whispers. But love, naturally, has wax in its ears. Novelist Ham knows the language lovers speak, a pottage of mush and banalities, and he is not above using it. He justifies the "I love yous" by capturing the feeling of the roller-coaster slide into passion, that breath-catching dive in which a man and a woman cannot help themselves and do not want...
Unfortunately, this gives Wink time for some rueful reflections. After all, he remembers the New England hurricane of 1938, before Gin was two. He remembers Benny Goodman, and he cannot forget Freud and girls who marry father surrogates. Then there is Gin's mother. As a penthouse-mistress of the theater and TV set with a not-so-secret yen for Wink, she resents a marriage that will blight the promise of adultery. What with mother and some complicated skulduggery back at the NBS network, it sometimes seems that the rice will never fly, but it does...