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...houseboat, single-engine plane, camper, two cars and the offices of his three private-detective agencies, turned up a collection of gadgets and paraphernalia worthy of both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia, they found ten 100-oz. silver bars, currently worth some...
...with Pepsi. Until now, the Coke-Pepsi battle has been one largely of words in some of Madison Avenue's best and most memorable advertising. Currently the tag line "Coke is It!" is arrayed against "Pepsi. Choice of a New Generation." About five years ago, when the price of cane sugar went up sharply, Coke began shifting its basic sweetening ingredient to high-fructose corn syrup. Pepsi switched completely to the corn syrup sweetener this year. But the parts of each drink's formula that give the colas their distinctive tastes have remained essentially unaltered...
...antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office by his delighted constituents. The following year Laurence Keitt of South Carolina called Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania a "puppy," and about 30 Congressmen, fortified by alcohol, began a free...
...family, whose health could also become an issue. His Manhattan celebrity lawyer, Roy Cohn, expressed outrage when Giuliani said Salerno suffered only from obesity, and had been on "fat farms." Snapped Cohn: "That's not true. Mr. Salerno suffers from hypertension. He had three strokes. He walks with a cane. He has heart trouble." Before they grapple with more serious matters, lawyers on both sides apparently will have to answer a preliminary question: "How sick...
...Seoul government's position was that the security guards had used "minimum force" to move Kim. In fact, said Government Spokesman Choi Tae Soon, the only person who struck out at anyone in anger was Kim himself, who, according to Choi, tried to hit a security agent with his cane. Kim denied the accusation, charging that "the Korean government and nobody else is to blame for what happened...