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...Lured an anti-Castro force from the Dominican Republic into a trap...
...Southern conservatives would never vote for a bill containing such a clause. If Bolling could keep his civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony tip to Columnist Drew Pearson that the hooker was in Section 102. Pearson dutifully printed the news, and the Southerners who rushed to read that section soon relaxed-no civil-rights stuff there...
...Houdini bolstered his mounting publicity by breaking out of still more jails. Onstage, he walked through brick walls, even though the walls were set on a carpet and volunteers stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not hide a trap door. (There actually was a trap door. When it was opened, the carpet sagged, despite the volunteers, and Houdini inched beneath the wall. This part of the act was hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized iron and dunked...
...Trap Drums & Businessmen. After studying at M.I.T. and the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he offended a department of meteorology at New York University with the breezy claim that he could forecast more accurately than the local U.S. weatherman. At Minnesota he outraged College of Education colleagues in 1957 by blithely asserting that they had replaced the three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better...
...Rabbit Trap. A fable about a plodding father's effort to hold his son's respect, starring Ernie (Marty) Borgnine, who stands in as much danger as maple syrup of being typecast as lovable...