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Wall to Wall. Though the scene was as American as deep-freeze apple pie, the setting was not. The tightly knit settlement of 15,000 U.S. citizens-mainly Air Force dependents with a sprinkling of Army folk-stands on a wooded hilltop above the baroque German city of Wiesbaden (pop. 250,000) at a bend of the Rhine River. In this slumless paradise, each officer's or noncom's family is assigned a completely furnished, one-to five-bedroom apartment in buildings erected for them by the West German government. Some 600 bachelor officers and civilians are housed...
...John Hunt, leader of the expedition in which Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Guide Tenzing climbed Mount Everest in 1955, popped up at a boys' school in Nottinghamshire, was prepared to answer almost all questions except one: "What did Sir Edmund say after conquering Everest?" Brows knit, Sir John at length blurted: "He said, 'We've knocked the bastard...
...Sinatra and includes, among others, such neon lights as the Tony Curtises, the Milton Berles, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis and the Judy Garlands. Before it climbed to political eminence through marriage (Pee-tah's to Jack's sister Pat), The Clan was known principally as a close-knit group of rigid nonconformists, with trib al rites characterized by copycat habits (members tend to use the same agents, the same make of car, etc.). Their clannishness, in fact, is strangely similar to that of the Kennedy family itself. Mem bers of both groups are young (in spirit...
...Knit dresses in cotton, wool and synthetic weaves. Says a Bloomingdale buyer: "It is easier to sell a wool knit for $60 or $70 than any other kind of dress...
...years after the Great Potato Famine, a dozen tight-knit Irish families-the McDonoughs, the Sullivans, the Cosgroves, the Flahertys-emigrated to New York, where they did very well for themselves in a unique trade demanding great skill and courage. The menfolk became "grain trimmers," i.e., longshoremen who, using shovels and wooden scoops, level out grain after it is poured or blown into the holds of ships. It is a difficult trade because the grain raises huge clouds of choking dust, and dangerous because the dust has been known to explode. It is also well paid. On the docks...