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...decadent Rolls-Royce Ltd., for a $12,726 Silver Cloud Mark III and a $20,454 Phantom V. They should do a lot for his image at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, since with a little friendly assistance even the clock in a Rolls can be persuaded not to tick...
Lobster Pot. Ice exists, of course, because when fat cats want theater tick ets, the price does not matter. So $20, $25, $50, sometimes $100 is paid for a $9.60 ticket. The annual take in ice has been estimated at more than $10 million. Among major icemen, box office employees have always had the longest tongs, which goes a long way toward explaining why they have always behaved with such freezing contempt toward the wretched public that lines up to buy ice-free tickets at the wicket. Brokers testified that they regularly delivered envelopes to box offices containing checks covering...
...makeshift laboratory beneath Chicago's Stagg Stadium, Eugene Rabinowitch heard the tick of the future...
...takes a runner 1/100th to one-tenth of a second to react to the starter's gun. The idea is to get Bob to react as instantly as possible." And one day Hayes will get a perfect start-the gun and the first driving step in the same tick of time. Both Hayes and Hill are certain of it. "When that day comes," says Hayes, "I'll do 9 flat." "He'll do 8.9," says Coach Hill. "And he'll do it this year...
SCULPTURE WITH SOUND-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. Synesthetic creations by 27 modern artists titillate both eye and ear with a clattering symphony including Chryssa's Boozooki, Bruce Connor's Tick Took Jelly Clock Cosmotron, Allan d'Arcangelo's Metronomes, Richard Stankiewicz' Storm Gong, George Ortman's Heartbeat, Alexander Calder's Three Gongs And Red, Man Ray's Indestructible Object, Robert Rauschenberg's Dry Cell, Jean Tinguely's Radio Drawing. Through...