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...single-minded effort to get low-rent tenants out of his houses and high-rent tenants in, Rachman hired men to urinate in hallways, smash furniture, and once in Bayswater to remove the roof of a house and abandon the stubborn tenants to the mercy of wind and weather. In the underworld he got the name of "Polish Peter," and West Indians, who knew his power, called him "White Chief Rachman...
...motorists have long had their own way of commemorating the nation's war dead on Memorial Day. They take to streets and highways, smash into each other, and create more dead. On Memorial Day last week, they managed to kill 159 people-a record-shattering performance that far surpassed the previous high...
...very high-energy experiments, the panel recommends devices called storage rings that will make high-energy protons move in opposite directions and collide headon. The superviolent crack-ups will be few because most of the protons will miss each other, but even one smash may become what the panel yearningly calls "a window on the future." Cost: $60 million...
...Died. Wilfred Theodore ("Ted") Weems, 62, bandleader and creator of the "businessman's bounce," which carried him to the top of the bigtime in the '30s and again briefly in 1947 when his Heartaches was a surprise smash, bringing the flappers-turned-matrons back for just one more go-round; of a pulmonary emphysema; in Tulsa, Okla...
...Germany, because it is too low." To this, he stiffly adds that his Teutonopho-bia is a sturdy vintage '14-under Hitler it merely matured. It was the atrocities in Belgium during World War I that first moved Rubinstein to swear "a solemn and heavy oath" he would smash his fingers before playing again in Germany, and the oath grew heavier in World...