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...exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...
Wages of Fear is sweaty, brutal, oily, grimy, and good. French existentialism rides a truckload of nitroglycerine to inevitable destruction. Bring your Spanish-speaking friends to the Brattle...
...Hole Truth. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested after he made off with a truckload of doughnuts, Sailor Robert Horn-stead, 22, told cops: "I don't know why I did it; I don't even like doughnuts...
Early in April a young, black-haired French officer-candidate named Henri Francois Maillot deserted his comrades in the 504th Transport Battalion, and went over to the Algerian rebels with a truckload of guns and ammunition. His reason soon became apparent: Maillot was a Communist...
...bomb. Libby saw why AECommissioners were rarely lighthearted and gay. Then in 1954 he became a commissioner himself, by appointment of President Eisenhower on the recommendation of AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss. When he moved to Washington with Leonor and their ten-year-old twin daughters, Libby brought along a truckload of scientific apparatus and set up a laboratory in the Carnegie Institution, where he works furiously on personal projects (his current interest: amino acids) whenever his work on the commission gives a moment of respite. "Science is like art," Libby explains. "You have to work...