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...Lindley surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley: "I am not a fanciful man, but when...
Love Me Tender (20th Century-Fox). Is it a sausage? It is certainly smooth and damp-looking, but who ever heard of a 172-lb. sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...
...round of any amateur championship took all the concentration he could master. Day after day of match play always turns a tournament into a mess of upsets. At Lake Forest's Knollwood Country Club last week, even the weather pitched in to ruffle the field. Scores soared on damp, blustery winds. Co-Favorite Ken Venturi, Ward's San Francisco running mate, the man who almost won the Masters, disappeared in the third round. Californian Bob Roos, the ungainly golfer who beat Venturi, lasted only one more round. Hot-handed Sunday golfers blazed...
...year have soared nearly $2.5 billion (to $28.6 billion-150% more than the increase in the same period last year). At the same time, businessmen have been borrowing funds for long-term projects on the short-term market, hoping that interest rates will come down. Meanwhile, to damp down the demand for credit, the Federal Reserve has let the overall supply of lendable bank funds dwindle...
When this corruption from within the local church has been completed, the Communists move into the second phase to damp down the religious zeal so that gradually the Marxian "economic man" will supplant the Christian...