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...dirtiest race in the Commonwealth this year is between State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane and Republican L. Joyce Hampers. While Hampers aggressively paints the 22-year incumbent as a good old boy from the days of the smoke-filled room and the well-greased palm, Crane has attacked the Republican's record during her tenure as State Revenue Commissioner under Governor Edward J. King...
...order of ham and eggs off her chest. She threatened to sue, said Viner, but 20th Century-Fox settled out of court. The late actor Peter Lawford, a Sinatra "Rat Pack" member who had married into the Kennedy family, recalled that "one time at a party in Palm Springs he got so mad at some poor girl that he slammed her through a plate glass window. There was shattered glass and blood all over the place and the girl's arm was nearly severed . . . Frank paid her off later and the whole thing was hushed up, of course...
...drum is a percussion instrument of surprising subtlety. But so is the heel, not to mention the toe and the palm of the hand. All are on display at ; Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater, where Flamenco Puro opened last week and -- like its sister show, last year's Tango Argentino -- astonished as much as it entertained...
Plotkin and his colleagues are also assessing the economic potential of such tropical plants as "killer" potatoes, which trap insects on their sticky surface hairs; the Amazonian buriti palm, rich in vitamins A and C; the pupunha palm, whose proportions of carbohydrates, proteins, oil, minerals and vitamins make it an ideal staple; and Fevillea, a vine with seeds rich in an oil that may one day be used as an industrial lubricant...
...Crimson players hope the accomplishment will increase their chances of being invited to the national championships held in West Palm Beach, Fla., next spring...