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...bandages decorating both hands up to his wrists. Joe, a former minor-league baseball player, kited $100,000 worth of bad checks, went to prison, where he promptly began to make book. After Henry was cleaned out, he slugged himself on the back of the head with a lead pipe so he could tell his wife he had been mugged on the way home...
...edgily watching interracial efforts to integrate a suburban swimming pool. And in New York one humid night last week, 60 silent members of a gang that calls itself the Harlem Lords marched across a Harlem River bridge for a rumble in The Bronx. Armed with linoleum knives, lengths of pipe and baling hooks, they warmed up by attacking 20 pedestrians. They were finally stopped by two policemen who held them back with drawn pistols until eight radio cars rolled...
...Showers. If packing, is no problem, or if the family requires more comfort while in the throes of facing the wilderness, get a portable gas stove, grub box, cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter...
...Filming One, Two, Three, an East-West satire set in West Berlin and based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
...Westchester Apartments. Although he never drinks coffee-a ban imposed by his mother, who thought it would stunt his growth-he daily brews up a pot for his wife before driving to work in a 1955 Thunderbird with such superfluous gimmicks as a thermometer that measures tail-pipe temperature, a special radio for airline weather forecasts...