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...POCKET FURNITURE Droog Design, the loopy but inventive Dutch design collective, was approached by Picus, the Cadillac of cigar-box manufacturers, to find new ways to use Picus' wood manufacturing know-how. Droog came up with a series of multipurpose cabinets and boxes, all of which fit within one another and can be arranged in multiple configurations. The containers paid homage to their smoky origin but went on fantastic flights of fancy as stamp boxes, keepsake boxes and, of course, an elaborately reinvented cigar...
...Pocket Furniture Droog Design, the loopy but inventive Dutch design collective, was approached by Picus, the Cadillac of cigar-box manufacturers, to find new ways to use Picus' wood manufacturing know-how. Droog came up with a series of multipurpose cabinets and boxes, all of which fit within one another and can be arranged in multiple configurations. The containers paid homage to their smoky origin but went on fantastic flights of fancy as stamp boxes, keepsake boxes and, of course, an elaborately reinvented cigar...
...California alone, 14 women jumped into campaigns: for Governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer and insurance commissioner, and the mayoral races in Berkeley and San Jose. Five women ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and two for California secretary of state. Says Los Angeles City Councilwoman Joy Picus: "Women have been helping men get elected for years. We just decided to do it for ourselves...
...object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...
Once, while shaving in preparation for a garden party in Kandy, Ripley looked out the window and spotted a Picus chlorolophus wellsi (small green woodpecker) that he needed for his collection. He grabbed his gun, dashed out of his hut wrapped only in a bath towel, and started shooting. The gun's recoil jarred the bath towel off. As the guests, including Lord Louis Mountbatten, gawked at his lanky (6 ft. 3½ in.), naked figure, Ripley enthusiastically retrieved the fallen Picus. After dressing, he urbanely rejoined the party...