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...patted on the ground to produce a hard greyish surface which is then artistically decorated with various colored pigments. The result is a sweet-smelling, smooth layer that holds up under normal traffic for many days. Since the worshipers remove their sandals, the floor of the enclosure is far cleaner than the floor of the average department store one hour after opening...
...maid." At this apparently innocuous announcement, the lady of the house looks up to smile a welcome. Her jaw drops. In the doorway stands a domestic disaster. The torso suggests a pup tent full of Jell-0, the hair looks like something dumped out of a vacuum cleaner, the chin resembles the business end of an ax, the eyes slide around like eggs on a plate, the tiny mouth might almost be a third nostril. The legs-it somehow comes as a surprise that there are only two of them-look like snaggled paper clips jabbed into erasers, and when...
...suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana) and scores of zanily imaginative TV shows. He had one of the world's most staggering cigar bills...
...boardinghouse. shares a single bedroom with four members of his family. A onetime accountant mixes chemicals on the night shift of a local plant. Ramon Rasco, once a prominent Havana lawyer, makes the Miami rounds in his battered old Chevrolet station wagon each day, collecting clothes for a dry cleaner. His wife Emilia has learned to cook-in Havana she had three servants -and the two eldest of her six children go to special English classes to make things easier for them at public school. In her drab apartment over a garage, Emilia Rasco keeps smiling. "We are free...
...load (for example: two skirts, three sweaters, a wool dress, a child's snowsuit, a woman's jacket and a man's jacket), dry-clean the works for $1.50 to $2. Average price for the same job at a standard dry cleaner's: $8.35. Twenty-three U.S. appliance makers (among them: Norge, Philco, Westinghouse, RCA-Whirlpool, Frigidaire) are rushing to get in on the market, have already sold some 25,000 units, at which consumers will spend more than $30 million by the end of the year...