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...Democratic challenger, Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, was involved in some shady financial deals. Wyatt barked back: "Morton now is willing to scoop into the mud in order to return to high places." Republicans contended that Democratic state employees were ripping down Morton billboards. Wyatt signs were smeared with hammer-and-sickle symbols...
...canal and dropped the weapon into the water. Two years later, he killed another exiled Ukrainian leader, Stefan Bandera, almost as smoothly. But while watching a newsreel of Bandera's funeral in a movie theater, Stashinsky felt his conscience catching up with him. "It hit me like a hammer," he said. "From then on, I knew that I must never allow myself to be used like this again...
Lurid Headliners. To the standard you-are-there-under-the-couch voyeurism, Robbins has added carefully observed studies of Mike Hammer's biff-bam psychopathology and Cash McCall's high-finance inside-dopesterism. But the ingredient in the mix that comes nearest to being Robbins' own is the gossip gimmick. He picks a public personage who has figured in lurid headlines, changes his name and a few unimportant details, and writes the novel around him-leaving him as difficult to identify as Liz Taylor in a false beard. In the case of The Carpetbaggers, although of course...
Under the auctioneer's hammer went the best preserved collection of U.S. gold coins outside of the Treasury. Belonging to Florida Construction Tycoon Samuel W. Wolfson, 50, it brought $535,000 in two sessions at Manhattan's Americana Hotel. Rarest of the lot: an 1854s $5 half eagle, one of three extant, which fetched $16,500 from a buyer. Why was Wolfson cashing in his collection? Fingering the 1850 gold dollars (value: $150) that adorn his cuff links, he explained: "I've come within 8% of getting one of every gold coin minted in this country...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefel ler pressed a lever, and psss-CHUNK! -a pile driver began to hammer in the first pile for a 200-ft. observation tower, the highest structure at the New York World's Fair 1964-65, and part of New-York State's elegant $5,000.000 pavilion, designed by Architect Philip Johnson. The fair, declared the Governor, was going to be a vast success, visited by 70 million people, and yielding "lasting benefits as a magnificent showcase...