Word: carousels
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...Carousel. IBM makes a show of its own mechanics. The audience of 500 sits on steeply tiered seats at ground level; and when the program is about to begin, this entire "people wall" is lifted 53 ft. into the air by two hydraulic rams. They end up inside the lofty IBM egg, watching nine movie screens at once, in a demonstration meant to explain how the human brain is just another computer...
...stripper named Penny Dollar, who once worked at Ruby's Carousel Club, told the jury that she had seen Ruby throw a man downstairs, pounce on him and beat his head repeatedly on the sidewalk, then rise in bewilderment and say, "Did I do this? Did I do this?" George Senator, 50, Ruby's bachelor roommate who identified himself as "a former postcard salesman," recalled that Ruby woke him at 3 a.m. the day after Kennedy was shot, seemed "very, very solemn, very moody." Dallas Rabbi Hillel Silverman, who had known Ruby for ten years, recalled that...
...with her late husband, was a partner in Baker-inspired motel and stock ventures, testified that she frequently went to Baker's office to pick up sums ranging from $1,000 to $13,300, always in cash. She said that the money was for operating expenses at the Carousel Motel in Ocean City, Md. Baker and the Novak family built the $1,200,000 motel in 1962, later sold it to Serv-U Corp., a vending-machine firm in which Baker is a major stockholder...
...Mortgage Guaranty stock profit was about the only pleasant memory Trudy Novak could muster. The Novaks, she said, lost every penny of a $107,000 investment in Baker's Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md., when Baker sold out at a loss. A $15,000 investment in a Baker-suggested electronics stock was nearly wiped out when the price fell. Then, 21 months ago, Alfred Novak was found dead in the garage at his home; the District of Columbia coroner ruled the death a suicide...
What Trudy Novak seemed to remember most vividly was the way Bobby Baker tossed bundles of money about like so much laundry. Frequently, she said, she would stop by Baker's Capitol office to pick up sizable sums for the Carousel's operating expenses. It was always in cash. Once, she said, she found his desk stacked with nearly $15,000 in $100 bills. Baker himself rushed off to the Senate floor, leaving Trudy and his secretary to count out $13,300 for the motel. "That's where I lost some faith in Mr. Baker," she said...