Word: hardrock
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...long-is splattering a man. Hammer seldom bothered with anything so tame; he ka-powed naked blondes in the stomach with his blue-glinting .45. Such parlor pleasantries accounted for the sale of 32 million paperback copies of Spillane's seven previous titles. The new boy, a hardrock who shows up to take over his neighborhood gang after 25 years of mysterious absence, will never do as well. Deep down, Deep is mushy. He sticks to one crazy beautiful 6-ft.-tall dame, and all he does is slap her once across, watching "the red seep back into...
...clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar empire: the Blind River uranium development...
...help about getting a direct commission for Schine, but not with the Central Intelligence Agency, because the CIA "was too juicy a subject for investigation . . ." Ray Jenkins asked if young Cohn had tried to high-pressure Smith into action-a suggestion that must have seemed incongruous to the hardrock old soldier. Snapped Smith: "Not me, sir!" His inquiries about a commission for Schine, he said, met with no more success than had Reber's. Then Bedell Smith snuffed out a last cigarette. McCarthy asked him no questions...
...well be exposed, too. No less important, the council roster now includes for the first time a representative of the people governed: hulking (6 ft., 227 Ibs.) John G. McNiven, mine manager for Negus Mines, and-as a fellow councilor describes him-"the very picture of a husky, hardrock miner...
Franklin Roosevelt had his "Cuff Links Club," made up of secretaries and newsmen who had been with him on his unsuccessful vice-presidential campaign in 1920. Last week Harry Truman officially organized his "Hardrock Club." Its membership: White House aides and newsmen who had accompanied him on his successful vice-presidential campaign tour last year and on the trip to Potsdam. The name refers to the time Harry Truman and the newsmen went down a Montana copper mine last year. The club pin: a golden miner's pick...