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A gripping story describes the near-tragedy aboard space station Mir when a docking module crashed and punctured Mir's walls.
So Gillette is touting the rubberized boomerangs on its top and bottom as gripping aids, to keep it from slipping in your hands, even though the parallel ridges on the Sensor line probably work about as well.
It is a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard athletic narrative prose.
To make a long story--it takes up the greater part of a gripping chapter--short: The dust lifted with Lyndon, the vice-presidential candidate, loathing Bobby for plotting against him (here was Lyndon's paranoia, or maybe his ability to spot the hustle); and Bobby, the campaign manager, loathing Lyndon for having the audacity to take a job for which he knew he wasn't the first choice (here was Bobby's East Coast arrogance, or maybe his idealism).
But this Classics Comics-style tour of the decade has neither gripping narrative nor compelling characters.