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...made the legendary Frank Costello squirm in view of millions of television watchers, and provided titillating evidence that unobtrusive Frank Costello was just what they had claimed -the boss of one of the nation's two big crime syndicates (TIME, March 12). They had also charted some tortuous trails that led straight out of Costello's underworld and wound up in ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer's anteroom...
...Communist novelists can be believed, the only good Communists are dead Communists, and the man who destroyed them is Stalin. Most of them died because they failed to make the tricky turns on the tortuous slalom course of the party line. Some of them didn't even see the turns coming up. A few saw them but preferred destruction to further writhing and twisting...
Centuries of British mining have exhausted promising seams, extended tortuous runways miles underground, forced workers away from the dull, dangerous pits to other work. So archaic and complicated is the system that only 25% of Britain's mine workers directly dig coal, against 70% in the U.S. In the time it takes one British miner to haul five tons of coal to the surface, one Hollander hauls 20 to 25 tons, one American 50 tons...
Foreign-make cars dominated the field of 26 that lined up for the start of the 99-mile grind. French Bugattis and Italian Ferraris, British Allards, Jaguars and Healeys roared over the tortuous 6.6-mile course. Here & there, for the people who were attuned to the pitch, could be heard the deep-throated rumble of a souped-up 200-h.p. Cadillac engine under some of the strapped-down hoods...
...many of the recommendations there was little debate. Of the 30 articles passed on by the meeting, nineteen were voted unanimously, including a half million appropriation for general running expenses. On some of the others, the discussion was log and tortuous. Article 18, "To see if the Town will vote to purchase and erect a Town Flag pole...and provide for the payment thereof," drew considerable comment from patriots, economizers and wags. In the end, the meeting voted the article down. The voters had less to say about a subsequent proposal to grant the town police force a forty-hour...