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Matters reached a breaking point in 1773, and President Samuel Locke announced what he called "a heap of new laws such as to prevent any publick entertainment...
...next fortnight to beat out her nine topflight male opponents. The favored defending champion, 64-year-old Willie Hoppe, who was a billiard prodigy at seven, is still the greatest player of them all; he still practices five hours a day to keep the form that has topped the heap perennially since 1906 (when Willie won his first world billiard title). Dark Horse Katsura will also contend with such ranking precisionists as Mexican Champion Joe Chamaco, New York's hulking Art Rubin and Los Angeles' Joe Procita...
Back on Gallup. For the remaining months of his life, he grubs for the answers in the memory heap of five decades, and talks his flashback findings into a tape recorder. As Jeff's soliloquy unreels on the pages of Author Carl Jonas' novel (a February Book-of-the-Month Club choice), it unwraps not a man but a mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy...
...Atomic Energy Commission. Where it came from and how it found its way to Dalhart were mysteries. But for Dalhart, the thrills were not yet over. The FBI, after poking around the town for days, found another piece of pure uranium weighing 64 Ibs. on a junk heap only three blocks from the scene of the first discovery. Estimates of the value of the 33-lb. chunk found by Don ranged from...
...nearly so well as Captain Carroll Lowenstein, but he runs well, even when not accorded interference. Culver didn't lose a yard all afternoon. When confronted with a pile-up at the line, he disdains lowering his head and merely plunging' instead, he rumbles up one side of the heap, and down the other, as though the whole thing were solid ground...