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Headquartered in a noisy Lower East Side loft festooned with bare steam pipes and posters of burned Vietnamese children, the Mob is chaired by Yale-educated David Dellinger, 52, a smartly dressed, balding pacifist. Though he looks hardly more aggressive than Peter Sellers, Bellinger began his protest career during World War II by refusing to register for the draft, spent a total of three years in prison for his principled recalcitrance-and last week entered the cooler again, puffing a cigar, after his arrest at the Pentagon...
...Reminiscing about 1964 on educational TV, Goldwater confided: "We had every cable of every television company and every radio company marked up in the loft of the Cow Palace. If anybody got a little too obnoxious to us, they could always have cable trouble." Next day on ABC Barry explained that it was all a joke. "There never was any thought of cutting lines," he said...
Once known as Winter & Co., the firm was founded in a Bronx, N.Y., loft in 1899. In those days, The Bronx alone had 40 piano manufacturers and suppliers. Most of them went under in the Depression. What saved Winter was the company's pre-crash takeover by Sears, Roebuck & Co., which kept the firm in business through the bad days...
...usual run of pop songs. In Bacharach's Anyone Who Had a Heart, for example, she slides from a 5/4 rhythm to 4/4 to 7/8 and then, instead of the standard four-bar ending, finishes with a five-bar tag that adds a strange lilt and a choir-loft wail...
...Away. To save the earth, they decided, it would be necessary to launch a salvo of hydrogen bombs into the asteroid's path. To loft the warheads, the U.S. could rush to completion five Saturn 5 Apollo rockets now under construction and build four more from scratch. A second Saturn launch pad now under construction at Cape Kennedy should be completed, and a third could be built. The Atomic Energy Commission would be requested to assemble six 100-megaton H-bomb warheads, the minimum size necessary to attack Icarus effectively...