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...same week Joseph Stance, health inspector of Glen Cove, L.I., was sure that what he smelled was no hallucination. More like an overworked cesspool, thought Stanco. He followed his nose to the old Maxwell estate at Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern...
...handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail jailing over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards...
...remaining members of the permanent class committee, listed according to the number of votes they polled, include Joseph Anthony Lewis, of New York City and Lowell House; Chester Middlebrook Pierce, of Glen Cove, New York and Lowell House; John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., of Dorchester; Harry Peter Haveles, of Roxbury; Jay Lawrence Fialkow, of Brookline and Adams House; Robert Stanley Leventhal, of Newton and Adams House...
...Kids of Glen Cove, L.I. gave a Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus a drubbing when his candy gave out and they discovered that the packages on his sleigh were nothing but dummies. Muttered one departing youngster: "Santa Claus is a liar...
...with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles from the Scottish village of Port Patrick. He looked back over his shoulder and said: "You bastard, I've conquered...