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...high with them. I'd just say all right. I got started through drinking and then smoking reefers. I started heroin when I was 14. I wasn't really strung out [badly addicted]. I wouldn't get sick and upset. I used to take money from my father's drawer and ask for money on the street, some change sometimes. I used to get heroin from anywhere. I'd get it in my building, the next building, on the street corners. I got arrested with my friends. We were shooting up in the hallway, and a cop came along...
...Goines had had enough, as he told an Indianapolis court last week. He had to give refunds to two customers who lost their money to the device, then it took Goines' own 15?. "I shook that machine," Goines testified. "Then I walked over to the desk drawer, got my .22-cal. revolver, and I went over and shot the machine dead! After I fired the shot, I looked at that machine and I said, That's the last time you're going to cheat anybody.' " The municipal judge was not amused; he fined Goines...
While construction plans aged in a drawer until 1967. when ground was broken, building costs rose one per cent a month. Many of Mather's luxury items, such as elevators in the low-rise section and a carpet-rolling machine in the dining hall, had to be eliminated...
Platinum Mounting. Well, not entirely. Small country inns, says Ronay, can still be counted on for the old-fashioned superb breakfasts served by "the godsend of a middle-aged woman, almost a nurse, who takes such care you almost want to marry her." In a very few top-drawer London hotels, "reverence is still paid to bacon and eggs -if not to the customer. They set out a piece of toast as if they're mounting it in platinum...
...rummaged in the drawer she talked about Arthur Hiller. "I don't really know what he's like as a director: all we've done is rehearsals. But he's about the funniest man I know. He's always joking. He's more easy-going than Larry Peerce [who directed Goodbye Columbus]. Not that-it's just that Arthur never gets flustered. I honestly don't know what the film will be like, though...