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Eighth Wonder. A three-story aviary will be filled with macaws, two types of parrots and cock-of-the-rock birds; there is an indoor sidewalk cafe open 24 hours a day on the floor of the lobby, a saucer-shaped cocktail lounge perched on a column one floor above -and 20 lobby hostesses in gold uniforms to pass out room keys and arrange for shopping tours, beauty appointments and baby sitters. For good measure, the hotel is topped by a restaurant that revolves 360° each hour, on a clear day gives diners a view of the Blue Ridge...
...When people talk about compulsory national service," says Milton J. Friedman, the bantam cock of conservative economics, "it brings to mind Hitler's Jugend. It's so much warmed-over collectivism packaged to look like draft reform...
...harquebusiers, Polish burghers formed shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient traditions are preserved in its art. In fact the shooting fraternity of Cracow still...
Letter of the Law. How Carry Nation conceived her passion against drink is a matter for more sobersided. chroniclers than Taylor. Some ascribe it to her grandfather's habit, back on the Kentucky homestead, of swilling brandy before the cock crowed; others to the fact that Carry's first husband, Dr. Charles Gloyd, was a professional drunk who reeled down the aisle to marry her and, in the few years left before they embalmed him, never sobered...
...carried around town on long poles. Lesser offenders lost their hands or feet. Last week General Abdullah Sallal, leader of the Egyptian-backed regime that overthrew the Ahmad dynasty in 1962, borrowed a leaf from Ahmad's book of horrors. In little more time than it took to cock a rifle, he staged a drumhead trial for seven of his former colleagues, including an ex-Cabinet Minister, then sent them swiftly to their deaths before a firing squad...