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...woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where farmers often worked from sunup to sundown, sweating in the fields or jolting behind the oven-like engine of a tractor...
Higher Authority. In Hollywood, two Apache Indians, hired to build an Indian pine-bough oven on a movie set, held up production while they learned how from a Boy Scout manual...
...himself expertly on a mantelpiece, and quotes poetry on the run. He also apparently has quite a past, with dire hints of such escapades as pushing a boy off a roof, breaking the hearts of countless women (one of whom, it seems, subsequently stuck her head in a gas oven,) and driving his college roommate to hanging himself--a Harvard, inevitably...
Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...
Life in Akir has few refinements. Moshe Ben Yaacov Libby, a lean, swarthy immigrant from Yemen, lives with his family of five in a rusty, corrugated-iron shelter. They cook Arab style over an open clay oven and eat from a rough board supported by orange crates. Moshe's wife has found only occasional work picking oranges, and the 'family's stake is going for food. But Moshe, who spent three years in a British detention camp in Aden, plans to stay. He says: "The Arabs of Yemen hated us. There we had a three-story house...