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...Absolute Cruncher. Even while Soapy was moving toward Adlai, tense, closely guarded negotiations were going on inside the 36-vote New Jersey delegation, which nominally favored Governor Robert Meyner but was actually split 26 for Stevenson to 10 (all from Jersey City) for Harriman. At a meeting on Tuesday of six New Jersey leaders, Bob Meyner flatly refused to stand as a favorite son, convinced Jersey City Leader John Kenny that Harriman was a sure loser. The six voted unanimously to back Stevenson. Kenny reported to New York's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, who passed...
...them over, sang her song into the recording machine. Says Petit: "She sounded awful." She went to work with a pianist, and Petit began planning the choreography. Last week, back on Broadway for another season, Petit sidetracked Carmen to put on the result: La Croqueuse de Diamants (The Diamond Cruncher). Right...
...slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance her bit ("I'm a cruncher of diamonds, I can't do without this vitamin . . ."), she brought the house down...
...Ambato, a moderate shock several minutes ahead of the cruncher had been warning enough to send people into the streets. Some rushed to church to pray. Then the earth heaved and Ambato's cathedral collapsed, burying in its ruins 70 children and the priest who had been teaching them. Other churches fell in; 70% of the city's houses were made uninhabitable. Bricks and plaster blocked Ambato's streets...
...cruncher came when a group of eight Senators offered an amendment to lop a cool $197 million off the bill. The amendment's chief promoter was Nevada's George W. Malone, a former prize fighter who had made a one-man survey of Europe in an airplane. He had found, he said, that in some cities U.S. relief supplies were being sold on the open market...