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...advance man's dream candidate-sensitive to the shifts in place and mood. He knows when to roll up his shirtsleeves and loosen his tie and when to button up again. Aside from Wallace, he is drawing the biggest crowds in Florida, but . whether they turn out to gawk at him as a celebrity or as a presidential candidate is a matter of debate...
Three of Colombo's men-one identified only as wearing a purple shirt, a second seen wearing a white shirt and a third recognized to be Anthony ("The Gawk") Augello-accompanied him to the rally. The man in the purple shirt has so far occasioned the most suspicion, because he happened to stray from Colombo's side at the precise moment that the Mafia chieftain was shot, raising the possibility that his part in the plot may have been to leave Colombo vulnerable to Johnson's attack...
...brick." But not all of Doc's quirks are endearing. Billed as a paragon of fair play, he nevertheless tends to characterize non-Nordic types as "a low specimen of the Central American half-breed" or as "ratty, dark-skinned" people. In his books black men shuffle, gawk and sputter things like "ah never seed such muscles befo'." Even more peculiar is Doc's method of dealing with the criminals he captures. With confidence in his lofty motives, he ships them to his "crime college" in upstate New York, where their criminal tendencies are corrected by brain...
...many postures." Black also revamped the Slavkins' staid, traditional Los Angeles house. "The problem," he says, "was a cold, formal living room and warm, informal people." Once again, he used platforms to replace furniture. "The first time people see it," says Kay Slavkin, "they just stand and gawk...
...dedicate the first ten-mile stretch of the $300 million, 26-mile net work. Then French-built, orange-colored trains with rubber tires will start rolling along the tracks at three-minute intervals. For months, proud Mexicans have been lining up on Sunday afternoons by the thousands to gawk at the project and its artfully decorated stations, including one built around an Aztec pyramid unearthed during the excavations. They have dubbed the subway "el Cajon" (the Box), from the shape of the concrete tunnel that en cases...