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...butterfly chair, the delegates were shown by pretty, pink-clad hostesses around a futuristic pink kitchen. The Russians were unimpressed. Noting a built-in radio, Kozuilia ventured to suggest that housewives might be distracted and let the lunch burn. When he saw a built-in cosmetics drawer near the sink, he cracked: "And do you also sleep in the kitchen?" Again a builder explained: "You'd be surprised how this helps sell houses." Said Kozuilia: "Oh, I see, it helps soften criticism...
...salesman who is onetime British amateur and U.S. intercollegiate champion, Walker Cup player and low amateur in this year's Masters and National Open, gave even himself a rude shock by barely squeaking through his first match. Easily a favorite in the pre-tournament selections, Ward had to sink a 25-ft. putt on a 19-hole playoff to beat Michigan's Ray Palmer and stay in the running...
...Never in history has any country contained such a high proportion of cowed and eunuchoid males, drilled with Prussian thoroughness to shun all household sins. Never, but never, do they drop cigar ashes in the icebox, prop their feet on a coffee table, leave an unwashed dish in the sink . . . They endure their married lives in mute docility, and die mercifully early in life from ulcers and high blood pressure...
...through the third game of the memorable 1951 pennant playoff with the Giants, Campy kept ducking into the dugout toilet to pray for victory. When Bobby Thomson connected for his unbelievable, game-winning home run for the New York Giants, Campy swore at the soaring ball: "Sink, you devil, sink!" He kept muttering until the ball disappeared...
...Place But Here. Water has always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth. There are few places on the desert where a man, for a price, cannot sink a well and bring up water. But the price is sometimes prohibitive, and the water table is going down. The Colorado is tapped for domestic and industrial use in Nevada's Clark County, for irrigation in the Yuma area of Arizona and (via the long All-American and Coachella Canals) in the Imperial Valley and the Coachella Valley, and for domestic consumption in Los Angeles. As the area...