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...After telling the McCarthy committee that derogatory material on employees sometimes strangely disappeared from State Department personnel files, departmental Security Agent John Matson was switched from his desk job to a pavement-pounding assignment. It was a low-echelon switch which Dulles would probably never have heard of if McCarthy had not hit the headlines by protesting about reprisals against Matson. Within a few days Matson was restored to his desk...
...best place for such an agency would be Phillips Brooks House. The Service Agency could obtain, file, and dispense rooms there much like BSO and play tickets. Operating periodically, this agency would save a good deal of pavement pounding, and unnecessary expense on the part of undergraduates who like their women from distant places...
...well-meaning but unpopular drunk who drags reluctant friends off to the El Clippo nightclub; and Gliblip, the unctuous sales manager. Typical Hatlo situation: browbeaten Mr. Tremblechin, nervously on his way to his first dinner at Bigdome's house, dropping his false teeth and smashing them on the pavement...
...motorcycle picked up the Chevrolet. The car stopped and Ruiz Pineda and three others jumped out. The fleeing men and the police exchanged half a dozen shots. One man fell. By the time a crowd had gathered, Ruiz Pineda, his luck run out at last, lay dead on the pavement...
Cinemactress Ava Gardner, who has been avoiding the public since her latest spat with husband Frank Sinatra (during which Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...