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...twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...
...Final Fling. Nonetheless, the old showman is not giving up. There are schemes to make L.B.J.'s last days in office soar. Aides are studying history to gain insights from predecessors, but the findings are disappointing. Eisenhower traveled widely and issued a warning against the military-industrial complex. But Kennedy was murdered, Truman disdained, Roosevelt died in office, and Hoover was in discredit...
...around would do credit to DeMille. Why not fly off, after the November election, to Africa? Then to Moscow to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and coo with Kosygin in the Kremlin. Next, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and tea with Harold Wilson for old time's sake. A final fling in Asia, L.BJ.'s personal preserve, and then a philosophic valedictory designed to galvanize the nation into thinking about its duties at home and abroad...
...never quite been able to decide what role the family should play in their master plan for the ideal state. Marx defined the family as "antiquated" and predicted that it would vanish along with capitalism; the Bolshevik coup in 1917 thus brought casual mating and divorce, and a brief fling at free love. The man who stopped it was that formidable patriarch Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed that the family was "the basic cell of society" and put himself on the side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even Stalin was not above endorsing a bit of pragmatic promiscuity when...
...aspects of war were grim. The ordinary Harvard summer school continued to exist together with the College's summer semester, and 500 females lived in the Yard. So there was ample opportunity for that one last fling. Where to squire your sweet-heart? In August the Keith Memorial played "Pride of the Yankees," the story of big, brave Lou Gehrig, the man death had cloaked with quickened immortality some ten years before. For the more romantically entwined couple, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire starred in "Holiday Inn" at the Paramount. Dinner could be had for an easy sum at Durgin...