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...Cuban Stallion. The nature of après-ski activity varies. With its deep and demanding powder and precipitous runs, Alta draws only serious skiers, and the night life is consequently restrained...
...many criminals have been taking a powder from British jails these days (399 this year) that two months ago, when Soviet Spy George Blake sawed his way out of Wormwood Scrubbs in London, the issue of prison security welled up into a national scandal that acutely embarrassed the Labor government. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins reacted by naming the eminent Earl Mountbatten to head a committee of inquiry. In turn, the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty pledged his word that "We will be out working all the time, not sitting on our backsides...
Though Goldwater has repeatedly complained that Romney never explained why he "took a powder" in 1964, Romney's letter should erase all doubts on that score. It also cleared up another question about Romney by demonstrating conclusively that he is indeed a Republican-and one who is dedicated to building a party with the broadest possible appeal...
...rooms date back to the days when girls' were not encouraged to study there, Richard DeGennaro, associate librarian, said yesterday. The small, dingy bathrooms will be retiled, repainted, relighted, and enlarged. On the main level, workmen will close off an alcove outside the bathroom and turn it into a powder room...
...Pasadena, Calif., family of six-footers (both her sister and brother, like Julia, top 6 ft., making their mother modest in her boast: "I have produced 18 feet of children"). Julia was content to eat what the family cook served, learned her mothers complete cooking repertory: baking-powder biscuits and Welsh rabbit, and little else. The one time she tried to cook pancakes for breakfast, she recalls, "it took about an hour. It was a real mess...