Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irving grew up in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. His father, who changed the family name from Rafsky in the mid-'30s, was Jay Irving, a modestly successful cartoonist who drew covers for Collier's magazine and a comic strip called Pottsy-about a fat, amiable policeman-for the New York Daily News. The elder Irving was fascinated by cops and filled the apartment on West End Avenue with police memorabilia...
...installed the pair in rented quarters on Romaine Street out near the present Sunset Strip ... I asked Hughes what he thought he could do with such a high-priced handmade car if it proved feasible . . . "Well," he said defensively, "it's really just a sort of hobby for me. If we put it into production, we couldn't sell more than 25 to 50 cars a year, and we'll probably have to charge $25,000 or $30,000 each. I think some of my sportsmen friends would buy them at that price...
Betsy Minnell was high for the losers with eight points, followed by Captain Kathy Allyn's seven. Dardy Robinson, just recovering from the flu, played an outstanding defensive game by hauling in six rebounds and stealing four, while going five-for-eight at the foul strip...
Like the DC-3. A 27-seat trijet, the YAK can fly on one engine and take off or land on a 1,300-ft.-long dirt strip. It sells for less than $1,200,000. As the designer, Alexei Yakovlev, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "My ship is a true jet successor to the Douglas DC-3. The YAK-40 can operate out of any field that can take a DC-3, and no other jet transport meets that specification...
...wings, and never seen, is a devil ex machina, Simmo, a man who strip-mines simple souls like Bentley. Buzo tells us that the meek do not in herit the earth, and that the power-brutes who do pocket only cinders...