Word: patios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, were exaggerated. The fishing captain whose sighting helped in the recovery of the bomb from the sea demanded $5,000,000; he got only medals from two grateful governments. Francisco Alarcon Cano, whose private school was shuttered for six weeks because a bomb fragment landed on his patio, sought $733 in lost tuition. He got nothing. "We may have made a mistake," says a 16th Air Force officer of the schoolmaster's case. "But the door is always open if he wants to come back." The point that escapes the Americans is that Alarcon, and others like...
...Momo") Giancana, commander of the 300-man Cosa Nostra army in Chicago. Then dynamite destroyed a shed at the Grace Ranch, the property of Pete Licavoli, aging chieftain of Detroit's Mafia. On the night of July 22, a bomb thrown onto Joe Bananas' patio blew out part of a wall. All the buildings that have been attacked belong to Bonanno henchmen and acquaintances...
...flaunt that attitude in Alabama is asking for trouble, so Huie takes precautions. He and his wife Ruth live in a house that is designed for self-defense. Every room has an outside exit. Spotlights have been placed on the roof, on the patio, on the lawn. Many of them can be turned on at Huie's bedside. "There are no shadows around this house at night," he says. The house is also equipped with three Remington riot guns, one for the use of guests. Huie, a crack shot, also has a riot gun fastened to the front seat...
...brightly colored plastic balls, about the size of a walnut and filled with water, seem just the thing for summer on the patio. Taken from the freezer and dropped into a drink, they don't melt and dilute the gin and tonic the way old-fashioned ice cubes do. And if Mother has bought pink ones shaped like elephants, the kiddies tend to clamor for them in softer drinks. But the freeze balls, made in Hong Kong and filled with water there, are apt to leak. When they do, the medical effects can be more chilling than the customer...
...Mann, 27, is a 6-ft. 3-in. mini-skirted blonde who loves popcorn, Mission: Impossible and André Kostelanetz. She professes to a belief that "positive thinking is the key to success," and she confesses to "a burning desire to set up housekeeping and start having babies." But patio parties and the P.T.A. will have to wait. For Carol is a traveling salesman's daughter, and she took up golf at eleven because "I only got to see my father on weekends; since he was a golfer I figured this would be a good way to be with...