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...transfer of at least $20,000 in $100 bills, and that these funds were subsequently used to pay for part of the $45,621.15 in improvements to the Nixons' Key Biscayne properties. These improvements included a new swimming pool and accessories, a fireplace, a putting green and a billiard table...
...York Police Lieut. Theo Kojak is a man of parts: jutting ears, a billiard ball of a pate and a squashed nose. As played by the movies' perennial heavy, Aristotle ("Telly") Savalas every Wednesday night at 10, this street-smart tough yegg also has a soft and thoughtful center. He wears vests, and sucks lollipops in an attempt to give up cigars. The combination makes for one of the more intriguing cop characters on TV. It has also made the show built around the character, CBS'S Kojak, the first new program of the season to crack...
...most lurid revelation was saved for the grave pages of Pravda itself. The party newspaper reported that with "party connivance" scores of "marble dachas" had sprouted "like mushrooms" all over Georgia, while shortages persisted in school buildings and housing for the average Soviet factory worker. One dacha had a billiard room and marble floors in the bathroom. Another, built "with the lavishness of the czars," cost 350,000 rubles ($490,000) to construct and another 158,000 rubles ($221,200) to decorate...
...come out so he could pounce. It was really a very nice cat, and when a bewildered-looking man from Buildings and Grounds came checking for pets--pets are strictly forbidden in Harvard buildings, a rule slightly less ridiculous than the signs against the presence of women in the billiard rooms of some of the once all-male Houses--we told him we were keeping the cat overnight for a cousin who was out of town, or some such story. I doubt that he believed it, but he pretended to quite well...
...apples. There are fields of corn and sorghum that help to make the island's 62,000 civilian inhabitants self-sufficient. The island even has a frail industrial base, a pottery plant and a liquor distillery. "For the soldiers, we have a lot of peanut candy shops and billiard parlors," a guide remarks...