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...Lowered Rope. On the floors above live the pimps and madams who control the lives and collect the earnings of the 500 De Walletjes whores. The estimate of daily customers ranges from 7,000 to 10,000. Very often the instant a client has left the stuffy, overheated ground-floor room, the pimp will lower a rope to which the prostitute must fasten the money she has earned. One madam, named Aunt Miep. would get outraged if she heard a girl wasting time talking to a client, and would stamp her crippled leg on the floor and scream...
...finish, led by his protege, 22-year-old New Zealander Bruce McLaren in another Cooper-Climax. But World Champion Jack Brabham doggedly kept going, gave one last shove at the line, collapsed on the pavement, retched, quickly recovered enough to grin: "They should have built that machine with a rope on the front...
...three days, then left in a steel locker to suffocate to death while Anglo-French search parties were combing the neighborhood. As a museum honoring the "heroes" who had kidnaped him, it would display Moorhouse's identity card, the locker in which he was kept, and even the rope that bound...
...derelict? The skipper caught a dangling rope and swung himself aboard. Fires out, engines dead, cargo-kapok, tea and aircraft engines-apparently intact. "Anybody aboard?" he bellowed as he wandered through the metal guts of the old gasper. "Anybody aboard?" A blow sent him reeling. A mad. bloody head leaped at him out of the shadows. "Who are you?" the creature (Gary Cooper) snarled. "What are you doing here...
...lore is the local jargon of dark doings-the terms for playing hooky, teasing, scrapping. The extraordinary thing, report the Opies, is the abiding loyalty of children to prattle that seems "more vastly entertaining to them than anything they learn from grownups." TV will never conquer the favorite jump-rope rhyme of little girls throughout much of the English-speaking world...