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...cliff dwellers still roll out their gaily colored futons (quilts) at night, and drape them over balcony railings to air during the day. But the traditional toko-noma, the alcove in which the family displayed its scrolls and flower arrangements, has given way to built-in cupboards. Central heating has taken the place of the hibachi (brazier) and of the kotatsu, the hole in the floor filled with hot coals to keep the family feet warm...
...visible farm prosperity, Kansas has five Republican Representatives and one Democratic. In 1956, the six winners each got 55% or less of the vote-and on that basis it is conceivable that all six could switch this time. Against the lone Democratic incumbent, Floyd Breeding, Republicans have put up Cliff Hope Jr., son of vastly popular, Benson-needling Cliff Hope Sr., who retired from the House before the 1956 elections. But young Cliff has not yet shown his father's vote-getting abilities and is at best...
Mathias stays on the island for three days, and during that time a 13-year-old girl is found bruised and dead at the foot of a seaside cliff. All the evidence points to Mathias, but always there seems the faint chance that his part in the crime is merely a psychopath's figment...
...YORK--Crafty Warren Spahn tossed a two-hitter and left the New York Yankees cliff-hanging by their fingernails Sunday, with his Milwaukee Braves needing only one more victory to clinch their second straight World Series...
Like the weddings performed by Dog-patch's Marryin' Sam-who climaxes his deluxe $2.98 ceremony by thrusting a pair of lighted candles in his ears and jumping off a cliff whistling The Burning of Rome-French funerals come in several grades. It is the undertakers who set these grades, but the church has usually gone along. The cheapest funeral (about $30) is Class 6, which provides no more than a modest hearse, a quick ceremony. Those who want to depart in style can, for a price (as high as $3,000), have black crape hung from...