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...heads in 17 years. Preti admits he has not had much luck. "Whoever tries to reform finds himself up against a rubber wall," he sighs. "If it were a steel wall, you could take a cannon and knock it down. But the rubber wall-you hit it with your fist, then turn away, and the wall has returned to where...
Most girls outgrow their dolls, but a sculptress named Marisol is an exception. She has made her dolls grow up with her. One 7-ft. 4-in. figure, Baby Boy, even clutches a small doll, with Marisol's features, in his gigantic fist. Her lifesized, deadpan puppets in brightly painted wood mock and mime the postures of people whom she meets (see opposite page...
...entered Grays Hall, Bundie once again found the Office strangely active. Several officers were talking softly but actively in the outer office. Bundie walked past them and approached the Chief, who was periodically pounding his fist on the desk blotter. "Two in one day," he muttered...
...cyanide for the grosses. Instead, the first customers lined up at 2 a.m., and by 8, when the doors opened, the crowd was so thick that people were getting sick. The crush broke the glass on the cashier's box, and the money came in so hand-over-fist that it had to be carted off repeatedly in cardboard boxes...
Hajj Before Trial. Not all who wanted to make the hajj this year could do so. Egypt's President Nasser, who made the pilgrimage himself in 1955, allowed only 17,000 hajj passports for his people; there were fist fights in Cairo as devout Moslems elbowed their way into queues to get the necessary documentation. In Jordan, airline space to Jeddah was at such a premium that one group of rich pilgrims flew to London, caught a BOAC flight to Dhahran near the Persian Gulf, then chartered a bus to cross 780 miles of desert...