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...game of Monopoly and six hours ahead of the previous record, complained that they had not been properly fed and "it's extremely boring." Three other young titlists came better prepared. Setting their own private record for unicycle riding (50 hr.), they brought along Johnson's baby powder to alleviate what they called "diaper rash" and kept happy in the saddle for a record 50 by playing cards, Ping Pong and pool...
...display their talents, she spent $5 million to transform an abandoned movie palace into the first U.S. theater designed specifically for dance. What was once the grubby RKO Colonial is now an intimate, lavishly appointed house with a decor of powder blue (Mrs. Harkness's favorite color), black marble floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass...
...nonperishable items in bulk (but remember that meat requires a costly home freezer). Motor oil in bulk at a hardware or discount store can be half as expensive as single quarts at a filling station. Products like flour, sugar, soap powder and dry pet food can be bought in 10-, 20-or 25-lb. quantities, then poured into smaller containers at home. In many localities it pays to buy wine and hard liquor by the half-gallon, beer by the case and cigarettes by the carton...
...Powder Keg. As a result of the price runup, played-out mines are coming back to life. A young Johannesburg businessman named Desmond Fisher has bought a mine that has not been active for 13 years, and intends to bring it back into production by year's end at a cost of $1 million. At one Transvaal mine closed for a decade, 25 kilograms of gold worth about $145,000 at present prices have been produced in the past two months solely by reworking old tailings. The Grootvlei mine, which appeared to be near the end of its productive...
...lady was at least as respected as fate, so course setter Howard Kelton bypassed the dropoff which led to the NCAA accident last year, but there was no ice to worry the racers this time anyway. The old lady teased everyone with a fabulous 8-inch snowfall of white powder two days before the Carnival, then come race day she decided to wash it all down with a downpour and the racers mucked through a surface that most resembled a colorless Slurpee...