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...Leave "Ev and Charlie" alone. They are doing a tremendous job. They are real Republicans. So what if Ev has curly hair. And it is easy for Charlie to powder his red nose. The late Sam Rayburn was as bald as a billiard ball. I never heard any criticism of Sam. He did his job for the Democrats very well. Ev and Charlie are doing equally well for the Republicans...
...feverishly busy first weeks almost convinced the tao that Macapagal might eventually solve the nation's problems of corruption, unemployment, poverty. He seemed to be everywhere-at political conferences, on the waterfront to inspect goods confiscated by customs guards, wielding a billiard cue in the government press office, or in the chamber of the Philippine Congress, both of whose houses are dominated by the Nacionalista opposition. In his 72-minute State of the Nation address last week, Macapagal said, "It's wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them realize as they...
...Cosmos Club has been a Washington institution for 84 years, now occupies a formal grey limestone building on Massachusetts Avenue's embassy row with 52 bedrooms, three big dining rooms, an auditorium seating 300, a billiard room -and, some braggarts say, the capital's worst food. The club's members have included Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover, along with twelve Nobel and 20 Pulitzer prizewinners...
...always has (at the age of 13, he became the pool champion of his neighborhood in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, upholding the honor and petty bets of the Irish kids against the Italian champion "from up the hill"). He invited Shuman to try his skill at a nearby billiard room. Shuman nicked Gleason for $100 in a close game of straight. "I'll bet you another hundred," said Gleason. Shuman then ran through 70 balls righthanded, 30 more lefthanded, and shut Gleason out cold in a 100-point game. "I don't know who the hell...
...beats going home to do the dishes." The Bronco, another Dallas bowling alley, features two restaurants, a four-chair barbershop, beauty shop and dance band, and is diversifying to attract nonbowlers by installing pool tables, table tennis and miniature golf. Eastgate Colosseum near Cleveland has a swimming pool. 18 billiard tables, indoor miniature golf and pingpong, and handles weddings and bar mitzvahs as well...