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Choreographer Herbert Ross yelled "Go, go!" and off she went-about 30 yds. along Manhattan's Pier 36, lurching like a sozzled sailor under the encumbrance of an ankle-length wool dress, high heels, a suitcase and makeup kit. It was one more rollicking day in the life of Barbra Streisand, movie star, and at that point the 25-year-old singer had staggered for an hour through the same one-minute scene in Funny Girl without getting it right. "My back hurts; my feet hurt!" yelled Streisand from her perch on a tugboat. "Now, now," consoled Producer...
Where had this cache come from? BDAC agents traced a Fixaco shipment eastward to a New York City pier where it was marked for legal export to Hong Kong. U.S. Customs men opened the two drums. Instead of a million bennies, they found nothing more incriminating than concrete and stuffing, topped with a thin layer of pills. After two more arrests were made in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Irvin L. Ruzicka indicated that one way for bennies to get into the domestic black market is by simple diversion from the perfectly legal export trade...
...award is an annual event sponsored by Elizabeth Arden for Men and is traditionally held in the plush Pier 66 Hotel where Rosberg admitted. "My parents almost fell off their chairs when the winner was announced...
...redwoods are prized by the public-and profitable to the loggers. Their wood is rotproof, termiteproof and practically weatherproof, nonwarping, retentive of paint and, because of its softness, easy to work. Before the days of cheap, non-corrosive metals, it was widely used for sluice boxes, water tanks, pipelines, pier piles, fences and wine casks. Today, homeowners use it for outdoor terraces and to panel both exteriors and interiors. So well does the wood sell that profits sometimes exceed 25% of total earnings. The Arcata Redwood Co., for instance, made $2,640,000 in 1965 on sales...
...determine whether the mysterious blast came from inside the hull or outside. Investigators decided that it was external, but some historians still disagree. Years later, the organization was summoned to raise a far bigger hull, the capsized Normandie, which caught fire and turned over at a Manhattan pier during World...