Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the rich racketeers who commute to their showplaces in the western Chicago suburb of River Forest (pop. 12,500), none lives in higher style than Anthony Joseph Accardo, 52, top banana in the crime syndicate founded by the late Al ("Scarface") Capone. Tough Accardo's $200,000 stone and concrete mansion, designed like a combination pleasure dome and pillbox, offers various conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, two bowling alleys, a pipe organ, a roof garden where strolling violinists play dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special...
From Little to Late? But the Dutch, the Scandinavians, and above all the British, with their slowed-down economy, are less sure that they can avert a deeper slide. Tough, restrictive policies in Britain saved the pound (Britain's reserves climbed last week to $3.1 billion, highest since 1950), but they held down inflationary pressure so much that Tory leaders must now worry about the threat from the opposite direction. Like the rest of Europe, the British have so far reaped the benefits of the 15-20% fall in world commodity prices since last year. But some raw-material...
...highway a year ago, they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the roadbed, but their foreman told the story at the sake house that night. Soon a delegate of National Museum curators rushed to the spot-too late. Lost: another priceless trove of Haniwa sculpture, the funerary pottery in the form of warriors, horses, shrine maidens, even ducks, monkeys and chickens found in burial mounds of the 3rd to 7th centuries...
...film also shows a Tarzan who has evolved in a wide arc from the original character of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels, first played on the screen by the late Elmo Lincoln in 1918. Compared to Elmo, who was built like a water tower and once -on the set-killed a lion that tried to rough him up, the Tarzans of mid-century are sissies. Tarzan's dialogue, over the years, has improved from a simple grunt to almost literate palaver...
Travel Agent. In Memphis, George Gattas hurried to the airport in an attempt to get two friends aboard a Southern Airways DC-3, arrived slightly late, raced the plane across the tarmac as it taxied before takeoff, blocked its path with his station wagon, accomplished his mission, gladly paid a $26 fine...