Word: heapings
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...brew that both sides guzzled on and off duty. As the U.N. told it, boozed-up Katangese gendarmes suddenly opened fire on a detachment of Ethiopian U.N. troops in suburban Lubumbashi. As Tshombe described matters, a few tipsy Ethiopians started the shooting by scrambling atop a 200-ft. slag heap outside the big Union Miniere plant and taking potshots at the Katangese...
...literary personality big enough to make their reputations. The best and easiest way to own a famous figure is to find or obtain title to his private papers and write the definitive biography. With authority (and possession) thus established, it is relatively easy to mine and remine the slag heap, bringing out successive editions of his major works, followed by volumes of letters or previously (and perhaps wisely) unpublished fragments of his early work...
Something more is needed, and as is usually the case, someone has found out what it is. The new lord of the garbage heap is Harold Robbins, a sometime Hollywood screenwriter whose long novel The Carpetbaggers ran into the millions of sales. Robbins writes with a spade, and of course he heaped Carpetbaggers with sex; a choice passage follows a call girl as she shaves a particularly hairy client with a straight razor and jasmine soap, dumps him into a jumbo bathtub, pours champagne over him as if he were a quart of fresh strawberries, then jumps in to help...
...setting a new West Coast record for hutzpa, he supplies an "inside" ending to the murder case quite different from what the court determined in the actual Stompanato affair. But this is merely a matter for quiet pride; what is important is that Robbins climbs out of his garbage heap smelling like money...
...Governor of Michigan. "It just isn't the same," sighs one AMC executive, "without George pumping up and down the halls and roaring in and out of the offices." For the first time since 1954, when Romney roared in to save little American Motors from the junk heap, the company last week introduced its new cars without him. They showed that more than the decibel count had changed on Mahogany...