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...drills present constant danger to "life and limb." When the clarion tones of the alarm sounded, one unsuspecting 'Cliffle fell down the stairs. She was on cructhes for weeks thereafter. Another girl reacted quite differently. While shaving her legs, she cut an artery--all over the living room rug...
...meanest mobsters in the U.S. is a small, tight-lipped hood from Brooklyn named Joseph ("Crazy Joey") Gallo. In 1959, when he met Robert Kennedy, then counsel for Senator John Mc-Clellan's rackets-investigating committee, Crazy Joey examined Kennedy's office rug and offered his professional opinion: "It would be nice for a crap game...
Today, from an office on Manhattan's West 57th Street, Anka runs a musical empire that includes Paul Anka Productions, the Spanka Music Corp. and the Flanka Music Corp. A rug on the reception room floor has an immense orange anchor woven into its grey background, symbolizing the most improbable theme song in the history of Tin Pun Alley: Anchor's Aweigh, with which Anka opens and closes his performances...
...have refrained from any recriminations which might tend to underscore it. Some School Committee hopefuls, however, have raked over the past loudly and come up with what amounts to an articulation of emptiness. Their inability to locate any real dirt which the incumbent Committee might have hidden under the rug only serves to indicate that Cambridge has a decent and improving school system, abetted by a progressive School Committee...
Ultimate Desecration. But even as his empire dwindled, Hearst maintained editorial control. Each morning he sat in nis San Simeon study, spread the Hearst-papers on a priceless Persian rug and turned the pages with his slippered feet. Memos continued to clatter out over his private Teletype. He kept visitors hanging around San Simeon for days before granting them the audience they sought...