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...George C. Moore Jr., 52, former maitre d' at The Sands in Las Vegas, is an egg-carton maker whose only visible campaign activity has been to plant one of his campaign signs on the Governor's reserved-parking curb behind the Capitol and another above a toilet in Virginia City's Delta Saloon. Explains Moore...
...bursts into the cell; the trio were kept in heavy wooden stocks "like Salem witches." Their steady diet: rice and salt. By contrast, cracked Wolfkill, the Viet Minh "did more or less abide by the International Convention for war prisoners-we were at least allowed to go to the toilet." Despite their hardships, the five who came back were fortunate. American officials in Laos have been unable to learn the whereabouts of eleven other U.S. soldiers and civilians, who are listed as missing but may not even be alive...
...bought the Cavendish in 1902. "One king leads to another," she used to say. Soon the Kaiser became one of her best customers, and grew so fond of her cuisine that he presented her with a portrait of himself that in World War I was ostentatiously hung behind the toilet in the men's room...
...diplomatic reception as a "grotesque expression of Stalin's regard for the common people." Most surprising to Djilas were the Soviet rulers' big appetites, appeased at drunken, all-night banquets. Before one such repast, at Stalin's villa outside Moscow. Djilas met Molotov in the basement toilet. Explained the Foreign Minister: "We call this unloading before loading." The book's big point is not that Stalin was a revolting tyrant, but that the Communist system permitted and encouraged him to be one. Even "destalinization." suggests Djilas, has not changed the nature of Communism. He writes...
...broad Cockney accent), stayed up twisting at a country dancehall until 2 a.m. On race morning, while other drivers, taut and nervous, brooded over seltzer and coffee, he happily downed a huge breakfast, described the novel furnishings he was planning for his bachelor digs in London: a heated toilet seat and a 300-lb. silver coffee table made from melted-down trophy cups ("What else can you do with silver? Fill teeth...