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...resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn both to his church (he once called Khrushchev "a crusader for peace") and government (De Gaulle, he said, was a "big boob"), he never failed to delight his followers-as when he squelched a heckler on the existence of God with: "You've never seen my derriere, have you? Yet it exists...
...Boob a Minute. Proxmire's new finesse was only one ingredient in the lending measure's passage. November defeats eliminated not only Douglas, the most intransigent proponent of the bill, but also Banking and Currency Chairman A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, its stubbornest opponent. Robertson's successor as chairman, Alabama's John Sparkman, proved more tractable...
...prospect is for favorable House action this year. If the bill is finally enacted, it will by no means repeal Barnum's law that a sucker is born every minute, but it may at least amend it to let the boob know for just how much he is being taken...
...limpest clichés, however, are the leading characters. Wild Bill Hickok (Don Murray) is presented as just one more bashful boob who would sooner face hot lead than cool lips. "Hit's easier to swim up Niagry Falls," he whines, "than hit is to understand a woman." Calamity Jane (Abby Dalton) comes off as a stereotype tomboy who looks like Doris Day wearing saddlebags but sounds like Martha Raye without a mute. "Beeeeyullllll," she squeeee-yulllllls, "yore huh-urrrrrt...
...beyond rational, or even irrational, argument. Some of it is purely visceral. "I don't know why," says an Ethiopian observer, "but I cannot stand to look at his picture." Says a Turkish businessman, even while trying to display his pro-American sentiments: "Just because Johnson is a boob does not mean that all Americans are boobs." A Tokyo political scientist can find only one word to define Johnson: shominteki-meaning pedestrian or commonplace...