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...closing number, Miss Washington, stacked like the melon gallery, appeared in a mass of red taffeta. She pulled her rip cord, and there she stood-after all, it is the nation's capital-not quite nude. An aw-gee string. A suggestion of red taffeta there-there and there...
...about McNamara's resulting bruises. "Bob won't get out of the way," he says, "so what can I do? I gotta get my shot." Despite Freeman's determination, McNamara wins about three games out of every five, and Freeman walks off the court muttering disgustedly: "Aw, shucks!" But a couple of days later, he is back for more...
...these matches, Orville Freeman, 44, displays qualities useful to any U.S. Secretary of Agriculture-an all-out combativeness coupled with the ability to lose, mutter "Aw, shucks" and return to the fray. For Freeman's job is the most thankless in the U.S. Government. Freeman's predecessor, Republican Ezra Taft Benson, called it a "monster" and a "sordid mess." For 30 years, the Federal Government has been ineffectually wrestling with the ever bigger surpluses produced by U.S. farmers. In the process, the Agriculture Department has spent many billions of dollars, piled up huge stocks of surplus farm products...
While the children are busy playing peekaBoo, Atticus acquires a more substantial nightmare. He agrees to defend a Negro (Brock Peters) accused of assaulting a white girl. "Whuh kine a man aw yew?" the girl's father (James Anderson) snarls at Atticus. In court he proves his client's innocence, but the jury convicts the Negro anyway; and when he tries to escape, a guard shoots him dead. Nor is the nightmare ended even then. The girl's father, a vicious redneck with more whisky in his stumphole than brains in his head, goes stalking Scout...
...make sure that they did, he published most of them in his book City Editor. "Pick adjectives,'' he said, "as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." He defined the newsroom as "part seminary, part abattoir," divided all sportswriters into two schools: "Gee Whiz!" and "Aw Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled the Ten Commandments to two: "Do not betray a confidence...