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...this is all a shaggy dog story that it turns out there was absolutely no reason to have raised the Titanic, except that it sure looks mighty fine steaming into New York Harbor? "It's just as well," Robards says when the byzanium turns out to be quarry gravel. "Someday, someone would have put this to offensive use. They would have built a byzanium bomb." Why then, he is asked, did he spend five years looking for the stuff? "If anyone was going to do it, I wanted it to be us," Robards said. This movie, had it been made...
DIED. Eddie Jackson, 84, gravel-voiced singer and comedian who wowed 'em in nightclubs and on TV shows, often in partnership with Jimmy Durante; in Los Angeles. The high-stepping Jackson's career first flourished during Prohibition, when he teamed with Durante and Dancer Lou Clayton in a famous horseplay-and-patter act that played Manhattan hotspots and speakeasies. He was celebrated as much for his rasping renditions of classics like Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? as for his mastery of the top hat-tipping dance form called strutting. "Nobody struts no more...
Also being tested in national park rest rooms is a new gravel-impregnated wall paint, designed to break a lipstick, crayon or pencil at the first stroke. But such anti-lipstick measures are useless against the girls who like to add their smears to ancient Indian carvings in rock so porous that the lipstick sinks in and becomes indelible...
...banality and clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow driveway, the symmetrical vacancies of parking lots, the abject curve in the necks of street lamps...
...firm to untold millions of dollars in punitive damages-a penalty above and beyond a plaintiffs actual losses-in the nearly 40 Pinto cases still pending. Little wonder, then, that Ford was reportedly willing to budget $1 million for its defense, which was headed by James Neal, 50, the gravel-voiced Tennessean who was chief prosecutor in the Watergate trials...