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Jack saves Ann from a fate worse than death; when Kong comes to reclaim his girl, Denham and crew knock him out with gas bombs. Denham takes a captive Kong back to civilization where he intends to exhibit the world's eighth wonder and make millions. His capitalist venture is cut short when Kong breaks loose and terrorizes New York in his search for his lost love. The great beast finds Ann and carries her to the top of the Empire State Building, but there is no shelter for Kong. Single-engine bi-planes attack him; riddled with bullets...
...echoed off the ceiling. Squinting, stretching, chalking, the players met each other twice in round-robin competition for the $5,000 first prize. Each game was standard "14.1 ball": 15 colored target balls are set on the table and the players take turns using a white cue ball to knock them into any pockets they choose. Each contestant can continue shooting as long as he keeps pocketing the target balls, which are replenished when only one of them remains. Each time a player fails to pocket a ball, worth one point, the other takes over. The first to score...
Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel believes that the lag effect of the extremely tight money policy pursued by the Federal Reserve in the second half of last year will "knock a few billion dollars off the G.N.P. in 1972." Despite these caveats, most board members agree that the economy should pick up strongly in the months ahead-if only because of the stimulative effects of the Administration's big election-year budget deficit. One early sign: the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 5.9% last month...
...placed a call to the team locker room to suggest a play. "Throw the ball down the center," Nixon said, "but make sure there's lots of spin on it so that you get a right hook." Dake was unable to explain why this had failed to knock down pins. "But it's the thought that counts," he added...
...break for Guns & Butter came when Lennie Sogoloff, of the renowned club Lennie's on the Turnpike, agreed somewhat reluctantly ("Well, it doesn't knock me on my ass," he said) to let them back up the James Cotton Blues Band for one night. That night G & B stacked the house with relatives, friends, anybody they could convince to pay the cost of admission. "They started yelling for us to do encores before we even came on." Lyons recalled. Sogoloff wasn't fooled, but kept them on another night to see how they'd do. They did well enough...