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Jackie's reaction was predictable. Her secretary informed Annemarie that "Mrs. Kennedy feels it would be better if you didn't come back." Said Annemarie, who claims she never talked to the columnist: "It was a wrench. I admired her, and I loved and adored her children. I was ready to jump down 20 floors." Instead, she went to the hairdresser, donned a miniskirt and received the press...
...finance ministers of the ten powers-the U.S., Britain, Canada, Sweden, Japan, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands-prepared for their conference in the turreted Foresta Hotel on a cliff overlooking Stockholm harbor. At a meeting of Common Market ministers in Brussels, France dropped a monkey wrench into the agenda by calling for a complete overhaul of today's monetary system and a return to the gold standard. The other five Common Mar ket countries rejected the idea on the ground that it was no time to debate the design of a new system when...
Choice Graffiti. From the outside, the club could hardly be plainer. Except for a black awning, a red flag emblazoned with a monkey wrench, and a stream of Rolls-Royces arriving and departing, the grey, two-story building looks no different than it did in World War II, when it was a factory turning out bombsights. Inside, the proletarian theme continues with chicken-wirescreened windows, secondhand tables bought at auction for $5 apiece, and bartenders who are togged out in dungarees and blue denim work shirts...
...with party policy. The rank-and-file Cubans are much subtler in their opposition. Some scribble graffiti on restroom walls ("Down With Russian Imperialism," "Fidel, Traitor"). Others indulge in a little spur-of-the-moment sabotage. Sailors or railroad men urinate in bulk sugar; a farmhand may toss a wrench into a sugar-cane harvester...
...General Dynamics' Star II and Star III are versatile two-man submersibles that can be equipped with manipulators that operate like a hand or are fitted to become a drill, a saw, a wrench or a grapple. They are equipped with advanced electronics, TV cameras and side-looking sonar. They can remain under water for from eight to twelve hours. Designed for work on the Continental shelves, the Stars have been used for acoustical research, archaeological investigation, and pictorial surveys of underwater cables to check for signs of deterioration...