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...social duties when he was called to be a fourth at bridge for Lynda and two friends. The foursome soon shrank to a twosome. They spent the Labor Day holiday together outside Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on a stretch of sand known popularly as "Whisky Beach" or "the Passion Pit," which the Chamber of Commerce now wants renamed more decorously in honor of their courtship...
...Hughes acquisition, the Sands Hotel. Drowning his sorrow after his casino credit was cut off at a mere $200,000, Sinatra 1) tried unsuccessfully to set fire to his suite, 2) jerked all the telephone jacks and trunk lines out of the hotel's switchboard, 3) promised a pit boss that "I'm gonna break both your legs," 4) overturned a table on the casino's credit manager who, in return, threw a punch that separated Frank from the caps on his two front teeth, and 5) announced that he was ending his 16-year association with...
...crowd presses expectantly into Manhattan's hallowed house of vaudeville, the Palace. One fan has come from as far away as Brazil. A woman from Long Island, in a $9.90 seat, has already followed the night's star through four cities and at least 20 performances. As the pit band strikes up the overture, the now capacity crowd begins to peer anxiously toward the orchestra-section entrance...
...Pick Your Pit." Robens' resignation, if it goes through as expected, will mark the end of a relatively bright era in one of Britain's most beclouded industries. A loud Lancashire socialist with a promising future in the Labor Party when Tory Macmillan chose him for the chairmanship, Alf Robens took the job only, or so he said, because he did not want it to go to "Lord Montgomery or someone like that." For all his socialist background, Robens was made a baron in 1961, and soon showed a gifted eye for profit. By closing down unprofitable collieries...
...government's deflationary "squeeze" has postponed a needed price increase, partly because a slow drift of workers away from the mines has caused a dip in production. Hoping to encourage remaining workers to move to more productive mines, Robens has begun an imaginative all-expense-paid "pick-your-pit" program. He sneers at competition from other fuels, recently dismissed the promise of North Sea gas as merely "an old flame tarted up in a miniburner." Such bravado delights Britons, even if few believe the lord's prediction that, with future economies, coal, which supplied 90% of Britain...