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...near Paris, sits like a palace in a park of landscaped terraces, ornamental walks, stately trees, lawns, fountains, plus two teahouses, three bronze statues, and a profusion of ornate limestone flower pots, cornucopias and wrestling cupids. No commercial vehicle ever scuffed the smooth gravel of its front driveway in the old days; and it took so much coal to animate the giant boilers that a special narrow-gauge underground railroad, complete with a turntable in the subbasement, was constructed to keep the hungry furnaces fed. The Berwind family, who built it, was in the coal business...
...Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana) and scores of zanily imaginative TV shows. He had one of the world's most staggering cigar bills ($13,000 a year), and a $600,000 Los Angeles house equipped with an indoor waterfall and an asphalt driveway turntable that spun cars around to head them back to the street...
...Honor, its beautiful women, and its Mammy. I need hardly summarize the plot, since most of you already have guessed that the daughter falls in love with a rich, vigorous man from the North, but loses him when he visits the old plantation, sees the rotting oaks along the driveway, and realizes that he can never compete with the Past...
...ethical practices at first seemed to be digging up only small potatoes: a Dilworth appointee was discovered holding two jobs; municipal employees were seen at a race track when they were supposed to be at work; city truck drivers were caught selling city paint; a private citizen's driveway was paved at public expense. But Hemphill was a serious annoyance to Dilworth. "The crooks we can cope with," cried Dilworth. "But it is these pious phonies we can't handle...
...clothes. Then came a call from the man who was supposed to convene the conference, Cambodia's unpredictable Prince Norodom Sihanouk. He was enjoying an excellent French lunch en route from the Riviera and would be a little late. Finally, Sihanouk's Lincoln convertible swept up the driveway. The 14-nation conference on Laos got under way just four days and an hour behind schedule...