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Aspiring rejasers can find ample tips in books like Joan Ranson Shortney's How to Live on Nothing (Pocket Books; 95?), which includes a 100-item check list for transforming everyday discards. A light bulb, for instance, makes a handy sock-darning egg. With blackboard paint, an old window shade becomes a roll-up chalkboard for children. By nailing upturned bottle caps to a board, the kids can make a front-door footscraper. These days, rejasers even dump junked cars neatly offshore: the hulks act like coral reefs, attracting fish-and fishermen...
Since Alexandria, however, Prince Borghese has not acted very nobly. He remained a fascist loyal to the ousted Mussolini. At war's end he was imprisoned for hanging partisans, but was granted amnesty after only three years. Flabby and bulb-nosed, the "Black Prince," as Italians refer to him, was kicked out of the neo-Fascist Parliamentary Party for extremism. Three months ago, he told a newsman that "the state is so rotten it will not even be necessary to give it a small push." Last week a warrant was out for Borghese's arrest on grounds that...
...Laos, the huge CH-47 Chinooks and CH-54 Skycranes are doubtless the safest choppers, primarily because the expensive machines ($1.3 million to $2.1 million) are rarely risked in "hot" areas. Perhaps most dangerous are the bulb-shaped $106,000 10Hs (for light observation helicopters). Flown by pilots whom even other pilots describe as "crazy," they buzz along at treetop level to draw fire and expose enemy positions. For protection, the lOHs rely mainly on their 150 m.p.h. speed. In Laos, that has not been enough; six have been lost and the U.S. command has limited 10H flights across...
...World Series crowd. While they drank to tinkling background music of polkas and show tunes, the mayor and his wife joined a select group of 150 VIPs in a snug cocktail setting behind the speaker's platform. The union leaders pawed their way toward the mayor, beaming for bulb-popping cameras as they pumped his hand...
...After the recording session they repaired to Manager Peter Asher's house for more talk into the small hours of the morning. "It was a little like Night Beat," recalls Bender, "sitting at a table with a tape recorder in the middle, cigarette smoke curling round a light bulb overhead...