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...North Carolina State, the Chapel Hill authorities sent for Frank Joseph McGuire, blue-eyed, wavy-haired son of a New York City cop. After five years as coach at St. John's University, McGuire had a readymade network of high-school coaches anxious to ship him the fanciest talent from the basketball breeding grounds around New York...
...League pennant race is over. The Yankees are in. Yet even Yankee haters are still watching the ball games, for these days the Yanks supply their own competition. Every inning that he comes to bat, their broad-backed slugger, Mickey Charles Mantle, tangles with one of baseball's fanciest records: the massive total of 60 home runs hit by the Yankees' Babe Ruth during the 1927 season...
...superfluous and therefore especially appealing. The good folk have a fairly hard time of it; in fact, they are almost invariably killed, or branded. And to heap indignity upon extinction, they are not even allowed the social graces of the Cangaceiros, who are tricked out in the fanciest rigs since Desiree (Napoleonic pampa hats and costume, bejeweled cartridge belts) and who have a neat back-in-the-saddle song which, fortunately, they sing quite...
...capital of French colonialism in Indo-China, Saigon nurtured some of Asia's fanciest fleshpots. Among them: an elegant bordello called the Dai La Thien (Paradise), with 300 silken-clad girls who entertained in mirrored cubicles; the Grand Monde gambling establishment, which earned enough...
...rear fenders and bigger taillights. In addition, all lines will have a new four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument panel. Price: less than...