Word: ringed
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ABMS. The U.S. and the Soviet Union will each be permitted to maintain only two ABM complexes of 100 missiles each. The Soviets, who have chosen to defend populated areas, will probably add new missiles to the 64 ABMS that now ring Moscow. They may also convert the Tallin Line of antiaircraft missiles near Leningrad to ABMS. The U.S., which by contrast has chosen to use the allotted ABMs to protect its land-based missile force, originally had announced its intention to build 14 Safeguard ABM complexes. Now it will complete only the two sites at Grand Forks...
...enthusiasm of Rochman and comapny extends from the revue to the neighborhood. They have dandied Mather dining hall up with tablecloths and baskets of polished fruit that turn out to be authentic. Tables ring the ciruclar stage and the actors flirt with members of the audience--which could be dangerous if someone beveraged on the complimentary DiSabato Rose gets jealous. But Wednesday night, with tuxedoed patrons filling the tables and Art at the fore it was a sort of provincial triumph for Mather House. It's a long slouch back from Alphaville...
Founded in 1833, the Telegraph's roster of writers over the years included H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, Louella Parsons, Ben Hecht, George Jean Nathan and Heywood Broun, who was fired. When it carried Walter Winchell's "Beau Broadway" column in the 1920s, the Telegraph was studied as closely as Variety at Broadway restaurants such as Sardi's and Lindy's. Even in recent years the paper kept five staffers on the show-biz beat. One of the most popular writers in the 1950s was Columnist Tom O'Reilly, who used to write a Monday piece...
According to Rondon, his trainer, Sase Betancourt, gave him a "strange pill" and sugared brandy shortly before the fight began. "I had to be awakened for the weigh-in." Rondon said, Observers described him as frightened when he entered the ring with foster...
...selling tape recorders to African witch doctors, a London mock Eden for young ladies, some of whom were immolated for lusting after a Schiaparelli dress. But what we have here is a grim little all-purpose parody and microcosm-with resonances that echo in all directions but never quite ring true...