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Safer Than Driving. Right from the start of last week's meet, Paul MacCready rode the upcurrents as surely as Willie Hoppe playing the caroms on a billiard table. He finished second in the freeflight for distance, covering 241.7 miles, moved out in front in overall standings with a fifth in the 62-mile race south to St. Etienne, and in the next event, an Alpine flight, he practically flew off with the title...
...fortunes of his followers he purchased an estate in Somerset, named it Agapemone (Abode of Love), and moved in with about 60 "brothers" and "sisters." The Abode featured a church with stained-glass windows, but which differed from most churches in its other furnishings, e.g., there was a billiard table, a Persian carpet and "a red sofa near a bright fire...
...soon dug first-class passage money from his pocket. He also owned up to the name of Gerhart Eisler. For unwittingly aiding in the escape of a key Communist agent, badly wanted in the U.S., Captain Cwiklinski got involved in a nasty, three-cushion carom on the international billiard table...
...Before settling down, the commuter must find a place for his coat on an overburdened clothes rack. In the basement, a student is apt to kick his locker rather than struggle with the old lock that opens the way to a minimum of space. Old ping pong tables, a billiard room with no pool table, and dingy lighting are all less than satisfactory. Even the television set hasn't been used for any length of time in months because Dudley's heavy stone walls block effective reception...
...infant or an elf; I let her choose her books herself, But, since you ask me, I should not Give her a race horse, or a yacht, A billiard table, or a course Of easy lectures on divorce, Though none of these should I describe As dangers to the British tribe. Nor should I draw my child's attention To certain bits I will not mention In Holy Writ, in Shakespeare's plays, And other works of olden days. I should not give her Law Reports (O dear, the things they say in courts...