Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless songs (the composer, Phil Moore, calls the technique "Woman-as-an-Instrument"), Carol fogs out three minutes of lowdown vowels, then wraps it up with wacky sexiness in a single phrase of explicit English: "Saved...
After a whirlwind of paperwork, Ike flew with Mamie to Augusta at week's end, where-between alternate engagements at the links and in his office-he munched (in the Kelly green coat of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club) crackers from the "Eisenhower Cracker Barrel," a pine-wooded whimsical memento contributed by Treasury ex-Secretary George Humphrey. Rising to the folksiness of the occasion, Ike said between munches, "There'll be no trouble from here on out for the world...
...concocted a mock-erudite one with such items as: "Fifth, Beethoven's" and "Idiot, tale told by a." The proper cross references for Please Don't Eat the Daisies might be "Rye Krisp, thinner than," but, at the same time, "Monkeys, more fun than a barrel...
Chief of the five military leaders is a barrel-chested, 38-year-old former French army sergeant who styles himself "Colonel" Amar Ouamrane. One of the original planners of the 1954 uprising that launched the rebellion, Ouamrane has a reputation for savage ferocity, is currently coordinating military activities on the increasingly important "Sahara front," where last week rebels attacked a party of French oil prospectors and killed 24. "Remember," said one FLN leader, "that even a minor Saharan incident will shake French and foreign-oil interests abroad." Ouamrane's chief of staff is bespectacled Belkacem Krim, 35, a ruthless...
Mirth seemed inappropriate; the nation turned to anger. The Government, always an available whipping-boy, again bent over to receive the lash. Righteous indignation rose to the occasion. Scientists, soldiers, journalists, and cracker-barrel sages fired their salvos at the nearest targets. Though the smoke hasn't yet lifted, it isn't difficult to see that the army has been fighting only itself...