When Peter Jennings smiles, do presidents get elected? Silly as the idea seems, the 1992 election may hinge on it. Call it the Peter Jennings Factor. One set of studies has shown that the ABC anchor's ...

A CERTAIN SMILE (128 pp.)—Françoise Sagan—Dutton ($2.95). A favorite pose of the very young is to abandon hope because they still have so much. One of the best-paid literary practitioners of this kind ...

Dominique, a law student at the Sorbonne, is engaged to a fellow classmate. Unfortunately, she's more attracted to his philandering Uncle Luc, who's married to the charming Françoise. Dominique and ...