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...Sinkiang, when they ran out of steel for a pipeline, it was finished with bamboo tubing. A Honan commune owning 6,000 pigs and producing 300,000 Ibs. of fish a year, saw it all taken by the state while the workers' total daily diet was limited to dough buns, a few ounces of chopped cabbage, and a single dish of noodles...
...buck on one's fender. To take care of this technicality, many trophyless hunters buy a bootleg buck for $40 or $50 from a local deerslayer, ride into town without having fired a shot. Hurley's six-block Silver Street is jammed with 56 bars, aswarm with dough-eyed girls...
...know what they cost you? Sixty cents a pound. That's what it figures out to. Convenience foods, eh? Remember you still had to boil 'em. You've paid somebody 55? a pound for peeling your potatoes for you. For that kind of dough, I'll peel anybody's potatoes...
...handouts of a couple of packs of cigarettes-for resale-from bartenders on his beat. Then there were the more advanced lessons in stealing from drunks. Says Patrolman Bobbie Whaley, 32, who became one of the most skillful of Denver's police safecrackers: "A drunk, if he had dough on him, never had it when he got out of jail. If the bartender didn't roll him, the cops did. If the arresting officer didn't roll him, the paddy-wagon crew did. If the paddy-wagon crew didn't, the guys in the jail...
...only fault I find with Le Crime is Jean Wiener's music. Periodically, gypsy violins accompany a street quarrel or an earthy seduction, which is like covering a turnip with strudel dough...