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...development for Iraq, and the auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes seem to float, and an austere double bed. A bed, he said, "isn't only a place for voluptuousness," but a place for comfort and majesty...
...least one group of citizens is faring well: the customers of prostitutes. Under a law that took effect shortly after the pooper-scooper statute, the names of hookers' patrons are available to the press whenever the vice squad strikes. Frets Captain Eugene Brozio at Manhattan's Midtown North precinct house: "To get any impact on the Johns, you need widespread publicity, and thanks to the strike we're not getting...
Local characters, including Crazy Mary, Jerry Walsh, and Scooper Doyle, termed by McCarthy as "Harvard Square students," were all part of his adolescent Cambridge days...
...Deep Sleep. In Baltimore, Charles Brogdon, 57, was arrested for drunkenness after he went to sleep on a garbage heap, was covered with layers of crab shells and cabbage leaves, picked up by a mechanical scooper, dropped into a garbage truck, carted to the city dump, where, at long last, he woke...
...Politically, they represent all shades from "extreme reactionary" (Fulton Lewis Jr.) to "liberal" (Frank Kingdon). "Changeable" in ideology: Scooper Drew Pearson. "Old-fashioned conservative" but "well qualified as an analyst": H. V. Kaltenborn...