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Superior intelligence and previous experience are not necessary, but may help, as will some familiarity with that wondrous machine, the typewriter. A free guided tour of the building will be provided, and the workings of the Associated Press teletype and the nickle coke machine will be divulged to those exceptionally curious...
...election returns into their own futures. They were scattered across the world and, individually, they practiced political yoga in Puerto Rico, foreign-policy pushups in Paris, telephone calisthenics in Texas, crosscountry running from California, deep-breathing exercises in New Jersey, and the running broad jump in Alaska. For their wondrous hex-athlon and a wide-eyed look into the gymnasium, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...came the wondrous news. A rescuer at the 13,000-ft. level heard a faint call from the broken end of a compressed-air pipe sticking from the rubble. He yelled back, heard an answering croak: "There are twelve of us in here. Come and get us.'' That they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel...
...months Gerard Mignone, 38, an unemployed Brooklyn milkman, had been salivating at the very sight of NBC's gaudy giveaway, The Price Is Right. The show promises a wondrous pack of prizes to any shrewd appraiser in the home audience who submits (via postcard) their correct prices. Mignone sent in hundreds of cards, became obsessed with the show. To check on prices, he organized an intricate filing system, hounded the Department of Commerce and called manufacturers all over the country. Said he: "I got a phone bill I'm afraid to show my wife. I spent $200 tracing...
Aching Sincerity. Actor Guinness has never been out of a job since. Three months later he was playing Osric to Gielgud's Hamlet, and the critics took special note of his "admirable popinjay." Then it was William ("a wondrous blank") in As You Like It, Sir Andrew Aguecheek ("a collector's item") in Twelfth Night, Lorenzo ("meditative, star-struck beauty that takes the breath away") in The Merchant of Venice. And at 24, he played his first Hamlet in an Old Vic production directed by Tyrone Guthrie. Most critics agreed that the Hamlet lacked force, but one wrote...