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Died. Carol Haney, 39, snub-nosed, pixiefied dancer-comedienne who burst into fame in the 1954 musical Pajama Game as Gladys, the offbeat secretary who had (clang, clang) "Ss-s-s-steam Heat," but, after being hospitalized for diabetes and exhaustion in 1957, simmered down to become one of Broadway's most popular choreographers, arranging dances for Flower Drum Song and Funny Girl; of pneumonia, complicated by diabetes; in Manhattan...
...early-morning gloom of Saigon's muggy pre-monsoon season, an alarm clock shrills in the stillness of a second-floor bedroom at 38 Phung Khac Khoan Street. The Brahmin from Boston arises, breakfasts on mango or papaya, sticks a snub-nosed .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver into a shoulder holster, and leaves for the office...
...English race. It is a form of infighting of which Elaine Dundy is plainly a well-scarred veteran. Before she is through, any true-blue U.S. reader is likely to feel that even a money-mad American would-be murderess is less lethal than the British upper classes who snub her in the drawing room and condescend to her in the boudoir...
...Ruby seemed neither upset nor in a hurry, exchanged pleasantries and departed. According to police measurements, Ruby walked 339 ft. 6 in. down the street to the underground garage ramp of police headquarters, and at precisely 11:21 a.m. he stepped out of a crowd of newsmen, shoved a snub-nosed .38-cal. revolver at Oswald and pulled the trigger...
...will have to be done carefully. With an election approaching, it would have been safer for the President not to extend an invitation to Tito. It would not have been easy, since Tito was determined to visit Latin America and the UN anyway. Nevertheless, adequate precedent for a Presidential snub certainly existed. A proposed visit in 1957 was cancelled outright when protests unnerved Eisenhower. In 1960 Tito came to the UN and was awarded a chat with Ike at the Waldorf-Astoria but not an invitation to the White House...