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Confections in Concrete. On March 26, 1915, when it officially became a city, Miami Beach was not much more than a spit of sand across Biscayne Bay from Miami. Beyond the sand lay mangrove swamps being reclaimed from the alligators by a few adventurers with a scattering of small houses and high hopes. Miami's present style is largely the doing of serendipitous Millionaire Carl Graham Fisher of Indianapolis, manufacturer of PrestOLite auto headlamps. One day in 1912, Fisher looked at the all but deserted beach and had a vision. He filled in swamps, paved roads, laid out golf...
...slabsided, 208-lb. heavyweight who had won 29 out of 39 fights, 23 by knockouts. Chuvalo seemed to be a pressagent's dream: broken-nosed, granite-chinned, he had never been knocked off his feet ("Belt him in the face," said one admirer, "and all he does is spit"), spent his spare time chopping wood and reading Freud. All he needed was a victory last week over ex-Champ Floyd Patterson-and a lot of publicity...
Even when he is reminiscing with Ingrid to the tune of "As Time Goes By" about the day she left him in Paris, Bogart manages to spit out such stinging lines as: "And there was a guy standing on the station platform in the rain with a funny look on his face 'cause his insides had just been kicked out.... Was it Laszlo you left me for, or were there others in between, or aren't you the kind that tells...
...hands. The Wamba rescue brought to an end one major phase of mercenary activity, and with it came bad news. South African Mercenary Commander Michael Hoare flew back to Leopoldville to inform Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe that he did not plan to renew his six-month contract. With starchy, spit-and-polish "Mad Mike" threatening to issue his last harrumph, other battle-hardened officers in Tshombe's dwindling mercenary force talked bitterly of quitting with...
...time was Johnson's unwillingness to spit over anybody's arm better demonstrated than in November. He had just piled up the greatest popular vote ever, blurring party lines and dissolving traditional regional loyalties as he swept everything except Arizona and five Deep South states. Partly, the scope of his victory was due to his opponent's narrow appeal, but his own strength in drawing 43 million votes was undeniable. He was proud of, and grateful for, his victory. Said he: "The people are pretty fair. They said, 'He brought us through this, he landed this...