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Bill of Particulars. In Chicago, suing for breach of contract, a food distributor charged that the Flamm Pickle and Packing Co. shipped pickles that blew up jars in warehouse refrigerators, on retail shelves and purchasing agents' desks, and moreover, were "less than perfect in taste, smell and coloring...
Never Far Away. It is the kind of race that has an insidious fascination for the oldtimers-the veterans, nominally retired, who spend most of the year telling themselves that they are through with the hot smell of lubricating oil, the screech of skidding tires, the grab of brakes fighting for control. This year is no exception: among the entrants is René Dreyfus, 49, onetime champion of France, a driver who dropped out of regular competition 15 years ago and settled down to a more prosaic profession: running Le Chanteclair, a raidtown Manhattan restaurant...
...decided not to talk any more about the Dixon-Yates contract during the current hearings. Just before the decision was made, California's noisy Democratic Representative Chet Holifield shot from the lip. "Mr. Chairman," said Holifield, "no matter how deep you bury it, it is still going to smell bad." Holifield may have been right, although not in the way he meant. Commented the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "The most unattractive exhibition of partisan politics the capital has witnessed for years is the row over the Dixon-Yates contract . . . these Democrats themselves have made...
Dubbing himself "King Al No. -1," Allerd holds court over a set of fellow oddballs. The oddest: an Indian who believes his people can reconquer the U.S. by blowing up its sewage systems ("A devastating new weapon. Smell."), a Lesbian who drinks milk from a baby bottle, a homosexual, a Harvard graduate who scouts the society pages for the names of new brides and phones them from pay booths at 4 a.m., a seven-foot Santa Claus who tampers with little girls. Author Bourjaily (whose first novel, The End of My Life, was hailed by some critics for its "lyric...
...about the Pennsylvania Amish, ought to prove popular. A good part of the time-thanks to Broadway as well as Amish industriousness-it is refreshingly lively; the rest of the time it seems-as the Amish themselves might-refreshingly dull. The whole thing has about it a nice country smell of ripe apples and respectable oddity...