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...keep a girl safe from robbers, mashers and muggers. New York forbids all unlicensed concealed weapons, with the possible exception of hatpins. Thus, in 1964, citizens were appalled at the fate of Arlene Del Fava, a secretary who faced seven years' imprisonment because she used a switchblade knife to fight off a suspected rapist on the street at night. She escaped prosecution only because a sympathetic grand jury refused to indict her. Though tear-gas pens are legal in most states, the notable exceptions include New York, Illinois and California, which contain the nation's largest, unsafest cities...
...White House. That is sometimes a problem, since many of Inter-Continental's 10,000 employees in 27 foreign countries had never worn shoes or used a knife and fork until the hotel began training them. Few early guests of the Beirut Phoenicia will forget the experience. Maids burst into occupied guest rooms to plug in vacuums to clean the halls. Water pipes sprang torrential leaks, turning lobby light fixtures into overhead fountains and drenching clothes stowed in bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe...
...octave range, spiraling up to a keening, gospel wail, then swooping down to a gritty, resonant bottom. Betwixt and between, he intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame." The tumbling litanies lend a lively, mirthful twist to the songs' plaintive themes...
...style of brawling brought by slaves from Angola and involving hands, feet, head butting and, if available, a knife or razor...
...later this month. The spoons have sculptured knops at the end of their handles, portraying the saints. Each Apostle bears his symbol, or the tools of his martyrdom: St. John holds a cup symbolic of the poisoned wine he was ordered to drink; St. Bartholomew is shown with a knife to signify his being flayed alive; St. Simon carries the saw that sundered him in Persia...