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...before "impacting" in the water to let the Navy outfield know where to look, then dangled flags and a flashing beacon above its watery resting place. As a broadcasting station, it popped out antennas, began "beeping" out its location. Then, for good measure, it spewed out dye marker and shark repellent. As intended, the 4-ft. nose cone was shortly recovered, and went on to its just reward as the inanimate star of the President's first missile speech...
...made the feet that propel the production equally the shoulders on which it rests. A master of patterned action, he has established the tensions, the instinctive hates and induced animosities, the juvenile-delinquent heroics and brooding-outcast rancors of Manhattan's native-born Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks. His switchblade rumblers jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where...
...Typical shark was squat, hoarse-voiced Max Chester (convictions for extortion, bookmaking, robbery), who walked into the offices of a Brooklyn plumbing supply manufacturer, Paul Claude, one day in 1954. Announced Max Chester: "I am going to unionize your shop." Testified fearful Paul Claude last week: "He wanted $2,000 to give me a contract that I can live with. I said, 'I haven't got $2,000.' He figured out with pencil and paper that a contract I couldn't live with would cost me $12,000. I could save myself...
Bluefish & Shark. Conservation experts at the course were careful to point out that, for all the improvements in tackle, they have little fear that streams or lakes will ever be fished out by sportsmen. The more fish caught, they maintained, the more the survivors can find food to grow to maturity. "Even state laws limiting the size and number of fish that can be taken are unnecessary in most cases," said North Carolina State's wildlife biologist, Dr. Ed Lowry. In almost all species, prolific egg production eventually results in far more adult fish than can be taken...
...They Hanged My Saintly Billy"-were uttered by Dr. Palmer's mother. It was the death of a racing pal, John Parsons Cook, which brought her Billy-saintly or otherwise-to book. The friends' financial transactions were more snarled up than the accounts of a waterfront loan shark, but it seems that Dr. Palmer stood to gain by Cook's death. One night they met in The Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, to toast the victory of a nag called Polestar. The scene, as Graves engraves it, is worthy of Cruikshank. "Will you take another glass?" asked Cook...