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...Costello would probably get to his assassin before the police--unless the assassin was killed by his disgusted employers first. One way or the other, the police stood to lose. Hopefully, they issued a description of a "torpedo" who weighs two hundred and thirty-five pounds, has a "pot belly," and "waddles when he walks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 235 Pounds and Waddles | 5/16/1957 | See Source »

...coffee houses. Besides an old stove and some silexes, the Capriccio boasts an expresso steam percolator for its Italian coffee. As Wilson watched his brew jet out of this continental loking apparatus, and surveyed his bubbling silexes, he noted that up the street they run everything through one old pot...

Author: By Charles S. Mater, | Title: The Coffee Trade | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

...Rockefeller Center office, Coulter confided: "I enjoy living here. It would be a hardship to live anywhere else." Why, then, his disparaging article? "This is rather embarrassing," said he. "The piece was intended for British consumption. People without skills who think of coming to America to find the pot of gold should be discouraged." The U.S., in short, is a nice place to live but no place for People people to visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whee, the People! | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...that although the United States boasts about its free press, "our press has bowed to an edict." "Nothing this ambiguity, "the rest of the world asks 'who are you to talk about the press of other countries?' From their point of view it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dulles' Plan Draws Attack From Worthy | 4/24/1957 | See Source »

...political pot was bubbling briskly in the House, and the aroma of a rich fiscal stew flared jaded old nostrils on both sides of the aisle. The basic ingredient was the Administration's record peacetime $71.8 billion budget, which is, in many domestic respects, a Fair Dealer's dream, e.g., burgeoning appropriations for agriculture, expenses for school construction, outlays for welfare projects. Old-fashioned Republicans criticized it as a Fair Deal budget, but the President left it up to the Democrat-controlled Congress to trim as it might. Entering into the spirit of the thing, House Democrats made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Budget Stew | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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