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Roar. Rattle. Bump-bump-bump. Bee-eep beep. Clang. Rat-tat-tat. The illuminated sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes to 82. Red light. Screech! North-south traffic stops. The number blinks: 81, 79, 78. Ready, eastwest? Engines whine. Clutches out. Getaway! Flash goes the sign: 79, 81, 82-84!-See THE WORLD, The Fresh Start...
Roar. Rattle. Bump-bump-bump. Bee-eep beep. Clang. Rat-tat-tat. The illuminated sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes...
...tilted disk that looks like a model of a flying saucer. Such disks jiggle at a fingertip touch, but may weigh as much as 13 Ibs.-as a thief discovered when he tried to whisk one away from the Chrysler Art Museum, only to have it drop with a clang. The second, also a space-age motif, resembles the hollow cone of a missile. Inside, visible from both ends, are two metallic spheres, one hanging down like a tiny bathysphere on its nylon thread, and by its magnet attracting the magnet in another sphere that levitates upward, tethered...
Died. Carol Haney, 39, snub-nosed, pixiefied dancer-comedienne who burst into fame in the 1954 musical Pajama Game as Gladys, the offbeat secretary who had (clang, clang) "Ss-s-s-steam Heat," but, after being hospitalized for diabetes and exhaustion in 1957, simmered down to become one of Broadway's most popular choreographers, arranging dances for Flower Drum Song and Funny Girl; of pneumonia, complicated by diabetes; in Manhattan...
...foot stompers, Birdland is now proudly presenting such audience winners as Dodo Green, DeeDee Ford, the Allegros and the Jive Bombers. The new acts have a "visual" appeal, Goodstein says, that brings some new cheer into the room. As for their music, it is mainly of the clang-clang-clang-baby school, played with the thumping beat of a garbage can rolling down a flight of stairs...