Word: sirens
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...Wailing Siren. At week's end Algeria still seemed a smiling white city lying between a blue sea and distant snowcapped mountains. In the nightclubs along the Rue Michelet, couples danced until the midnight curfew, although traveling strippers have taken Algeria off their itineraries. At a movie house on the Rue d'lsly. Moslems and Europeans queued up to see Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing...
Last week Heinz Weigt completed plans for a move to bigger and plushier quarters, which a Munich hotel is providing free. With the club will go one present fixture: an enlarged Watteau etching, from which an 18th century siren peeks suggestively out at the bar as she heads for the shrubbery with her lover. Muses Weigt: "She is the symbol of the club. You see how her wink follows you all around the room? She already has everything-yet she still wants something more...
...button. To accommodate their four children, the Lawfords have converted Mayer's garden greenhouse into a playhouse; though the Pacific is right off their front door, they have a fresh water swimming pool that is the envy of such neighbors as Actor Brian Aherne and Septuagenarian Siren Mae West...
...siren cries of nothing down, easy credit and pay later have made the installment plan an essential part of the U.S. economy. In the process, consumers have run up a steadily rising personal debt of $54 billion, much of it in unpaid interest. Economists do not find the figure unduly alarming, but many of them worry that too few consumers realize the true cost of credit...
...Times, University of Illinois Graduate Chancellor, now 33, joined NBC news in 1950, went around Chicago in a mobile unit painted like a police car and equipped with a flashing red light and siren. He chased cop calls, once sprawled on the pavement and narrated a gunfight with bullets whanging overhead, also covered an oil refinery fire, continuing his broadcast even while running through falling debris, although his voice went up about seven octaves en route...