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Television was busy last week with scalpel and sedative, and viewers had a vicarious whirl through the agonies of d.t.s, the miseries of migraine and the horrors of infanticide. On NBC's March of Medicine, Announcer Ben Grauer introduced the subject of alcoholism from a comfortable perch at Moriarty's bar on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. His point: most of the bibbers in sight were capable of taking it or of leaving it alone...
Spectacular Sport. In Buffalo, when police flushed Decker Smith, 63, from his perch in a tree above the local lovers' lane early one evening and found a pair of binoculars in his pocket, he protested that he was merely making a routine check of nearby horseshoe-game scoreboards...
...Pira's eye fell on the huge, handsome old villas that perch on the hillsides above Florence. Most belong to rich Italians who occupy them only a few months a year. Drawing on his experiences as onetime aw professor at the University of Florence, La Pira rummaged among old ar-:hives, finally found what he wanted: a aw of the Kingdom of Italy, passed in 1865, which empowered Italian mayors to requisition private buildings in grave emergencies...
...Flynn's influence, he could not make De Sapio's position secure. Beneath De Sapio's shaky perch slavered a whole litter of lesser tigers just waiting for him to make his first slip. He slipped, and soon. With Flynn, he supported Judge Ferdinand Pecora, an honest man cursed with every outward attribute of the typical Tammany stooge, against a Tammany outcast. Vincent Impellitteri, who looked to the voters like a brave little David slinging stones at a Goliath. "Impy," without machine support, won easily. Never had Tammany Hall suffered a more galling defeat. De Sapio...
...fastest (1,650 m.p.h.) and highest-flying (90,000 ft.) airplane on record came to a violent end last week. The chunky, rocket-powered Bell X-1A was fastened in its perch on the belly of its B-29 mother ship, and carried 30,000 ft. for a series of routine rolls, climbs and pushups above California's Mojave Desert. As usual, a Sabre jet fighter flew behind as a watchdog "chase" plane...