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...slum kid who made good. During the 1968 filming of Lady in Cement, according to Producer's Assistant Michael Viner, a prostitute complained that Sinatra had asked her to stay for breakfast after an all-night party, and then used a knife and fork to eat an order of ham and eggs off her chest. She threatened to sue, said Viner, but 20th Century-Fox settled out of court. The late actor Peter Lawford, a Sinatra "Rat Pack" member who had married into the Kennedy family, recalled that "one time at a party in Palm Springs...
...first and last 25 pages of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypal American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and lastminute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...
...ruse was such a ham-handed throwback, so lacking in the artful subtlety that the new Kremlin leadership is supposed to prize so highly, that analysts were stunned. One week earlier the FBI in New York City had arrested Gennadi Zakharov, a Soviet citizen employed at the U.N., after he had bought an envelope filled with U.S. military secrets. Since Zakharov did not have diplomatic immunity, a federal judge ordered him held without bail. The subsequent arrest and jailing of Daniloff offered the Soviets both a bargaining chip and a choreographed symmetry. Or at least so it seemed to them...
...being tested at a USDA laboratory in ) Gainesville, Fla. Not all methods are mechanical. In New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, beagles have been trained to detect contraband flora. Jackpot, J.F.K.'s first beagle, has sniffed out oranges, papayas and two 10- lb. mangoes -- as well as salami, ham, cheese, live birds and a can of lime- scented shaving cream...
...questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom with his attorneys but would have to return to the basement jail for tuna or ham sandwiches. "Judge," said the obviously annoyed Gotti, "why don't we just...