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...their married life for NBC's Today show. "We have a two-week curfew," explained the blonde former Miss Indiana. "Gil Clancy, Jerry's manager, is in the room right next to us, and his ear is glued to the wall. If there's a cough in the middle of the night, Gil says, 'What are you doing in there?' " Getting Jerry alone has not been easy. The Quarrys. married in August, just two days before a fight. Since then Jerry's schedule has been so crowded that he and Charlie were not able...
...setting is an English coal-mining town. The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are joining them to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. Shaw (Donald Ewer) has gone down into the coalpits for 49 years. He has a lung-dusty cough, a ready thirst and a powerful conviction that he has saved his boys from the red-brick slavery of a Midlands industrial warren...
...baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, roaring and cheering and baiting by the crowd is the norm--and it gives an edge to some players. In other sports, notably golf, pool, and tennis, a baby's cough can send competitors to a mental hospital. Cheering mistakes is rudeness at its gauchest, so much so that players read such behavior on the part of the audience as grounds for dismissal. Until the tremendous sports-money boom in the 60s, these distinctions went unchallenged. Golf, tennis and billiards, originally the sports of the privileged, were played in private enclaves where family mattered more...
Pines is allergic to cigarette smoke. When people around her light up, her eyes become teary and she begins to cough. Last year she introduced House Bill 1688, which would establish separate smoking and nonsmoking sections in all public places in Massachusetts. The House Ways and Means Committee killed the bill, and Pines introduced it again this year. It will probably die once more. "Next to the oil industry, the cigarette industry is the most powerful," Pines says bitterly, explaining why her bill has not passed. But there is a more fundamental explanation. Apparently, most Massachusetts legislators do not recognize...
...federal courts to which an appeal will almost certainly be taken, it could cost ITT $35 million -one estimate of unpaid taxes owed on the deal. Although those taxes are due from the former shareholders of Hartford, ITT has pledged to reimburse them for any money they have to cough...