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Inside, a portrait of the blond, blue-eyed proprietress smiles down from above the hearth at the waiters rushing between nine tables and an array of smorgasbord in the middle of the room. When the aroma and the candlelight have created the proper mood, grab a plate and sample the display of food. "Take all you can eat, but eat all you take," is the menu's advice. Ignore...
...Venezuela already has 12 British jet bombers (Canberras) and 24 fighters (Vampires). The Dominican Air Force is a grab-bag of 42 old and new propeller planes, made in the U.S. or Britain...
Never Far Away. It is the kind of race that has an insidious fascination for the oldtimers-the veterans, nominally retired, who spend most of the year telling themselves that they are through with the hot smell of lubricating oil, the screech of skidding tires, the grab of brakes fighting for control. This year is no exception: among the entrants is René Dreyfus, 49, onetime champion of France, a driver who dropped out of regular competition 15 years ago and settled down to a more prosaic profession: running Le Chanteclair, a raidtown Manhattan restaurant...
...your Jan 31 picture of Robert R. Young climbing aboard a boxcar: Railroad Tycoon Young had best read his rule book on safety. He should use the grab irons on the side of the boxcar instead of on the end as shown in your picture...
...committee. But 16 days after Dictator Stalin's death, there was a significant change: Khrushchev supplanted Malenkov as First Secretary of the party, key position in the Communist setup, a job held by Stalin to the end of his life. Who was Nikita Khrushchev that he could grab so much power...