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They pried the paneling off Conforti's walls, tore up his living room furniture, ripped away aluminum siding, prodded patio tiles loose and dug gaping trenches across the yard. The agents even smashed a toilet bowl to see if the money might be between the inner and outer casings. As the demolition continued, neighbors gathered by the dozens; a Good Humor man pulled up; children peeked in the windows. The agents went on ripping, tearing and pounding things for nearly 24 hours...
...says, "we stick with it, just changing the sleeves, collars and accents." One popular outfit is her polyester knit Nancy Pants, and an other style is the Tom Jones blouse, which has a full sleeve with a wide, snug cuff. She makes gold lame pantsuits, gaucho pants, knickers and patio dresses, and refuses to rule out any particular style for her customers-except for "anything tight" and numbers with buttons all the way down the front (they may gap and pull open). Nancy Austin believes that her clothes make fat women feel happier. Perhaps so, but the effect is usually...
...Soon the rifle shots were augmented by mortar fire and grenade explosions. Panicky guests scattered from the open patio to the throne room or to the beach, but many were cut down by gunfire. A grenade landed at Hassan's feet; Bourguiba heroically picked it up and tossed it away, probably saving the King's life. Thirty truckloads of cadets in battle fatigues swarmed over the grounds and made guests lie down in the broiling sun. ∙ In the confusion, Hassan slipped into the throne room and then into another room farther inside. There he dickered with General...
...discarded beer barrel becomes a leather-slung chair, old railroad ties turn into thick benches, tin cans take on new life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband's worn-out Army boots...
...room for dancing had doors on one side that led out to the patio and the swimming pool. By the pool, I could look up and see all the tall, dwarfing white towers of Miami Beach. I wonder what I felt. Something indescribable. A plastic pool, plastic towers, but, high up, real stars. And, past the pool, a sudden drop to the beach itself. A big golden orange moon hanging above the ocean. Fierce waves crashing...