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...Deep Sleep. In Baltimore, Charles Brogdon, 57, was arrested for drunkenness after he went to sleep on a garbage heap, was covered with layers of crab shells and cabbage leaves, picked up by a mechanical scooper, dropped into a garbage truck, carted to the city dump, where, at long last, he woke...
These objects a few decades from now may be back on the junk heap, or they may prove to have been the testing ground for a new way of seeing in an age of electronics, supersonics and atomic power. At the moment they represent a continuing effort to rework the common materials of the age. By using techniques borrowed from airplane factory and auto assembly lines, modern-day sculptors are finding new ways to express man's place, or lack of it, in a fast-changing, highly technical and anxious...
...drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom's "Neanderthal bloc," and Fort Knox seems well on its way to becoming the biggest compost heap in the world...
Beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of one of Rome's proudest 16th century families, had just taken her first lover. The scene: a heap of empty sacks in the wine cellar. The man: her father's steward. "Time passed. She heard the drops clicking rhythmically from a spigot. The smell of wine, the scent of burlap, the pungent scent of Olimpio-they wove a dark separate world, safe, secret, profound." How profound or how secret Beatrice's new world really was is something for historians to argue about. But safe it clearly was not. Less than two years...
...foaming up, beer sales are going down. Thus, every U.S. brewer, from the Big Three national giants-Anheuser-Busch, Schlitz, Pabst-on down to the smallest local brewery is on the warpath, each trying to scalp the others in the fight for sales. At the top of the heap, and battling to stay in the No. 1 spot, is Anheuser-Busch's President August Anheuser Busch Jr., grandson of Co-Founder Adolphus. Like his grandfather, "Gussie" Busch is a salesman with a flair for advertising and promotion, combining dawn-to-dusk energy with dusk-to-dawn good fellowship. Says...