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...secret to the society's longevity lies in the simplicity of its message and its diligence in spreading the word. Communists, or their minions, are working to see the "Christian style civilization" buried under Marx's big boot. But Birch Communism has almost nothing to do with Marx; "Communist" for the society is simply an adjective, a pejorative applied to any form of government control. John Birchers have a nearly pathological fear of government control; the line blurrs between traffic lights and the abolition of private property, both forms of governmental intrusion into people's lives. It is nostalgia tempered...
...primarily a symbol of the revolution, which at the outset had no visible leaders. But even in exile the Ayatullah was well known inside Iran for his uncompromising insistence that the Shah must go. When demonstrators began waving the Ayatullah's picture, the frightened Shah pressured Iraq to boot Khomeini out. It was a fatal blunder; in October 1978 the Ayatullah settled in Neauphle-le-Château, outside Paris, where he gathered a circle of exiles and for the first time publicized his views through the Western press...
Enter Fonda in designer boots and jeans, caught in the TV newswoman syndrome for the second time in a year. She goes after the horse thief hoping for an obnoxiously good story; she winds up with the story and a few cozy nights with Redford under the Utah stars to boot...
...London, took a job as a sheet-metal worker that he held for five years. He also made his own guitars and formed a group called the Detours. On the street one day, he spotted "this great big geezer with a homemade bass that looked like a football boot with a neck sticking out of it," and recruited Entwistle on the spot. Soon after that, Daltrey decked the Detour's lead singer and took over the vocals himself. Now the Detours needed a rhythm guitar player. Entwistle mentioned his school chum, Townshend, whom Daltrey recalls as "looking like a nose...
...bamboo shoots whittled at the end to a point, and dipped in cow shit, and stuck into the ground on a tight spring, and covered with a vine and leaves. When you trip the vine the stick impales you and infects the wound. They don't have it in boot camp." He twisted his smile, turned his head slowly back toward the windshield and started mumbling a song...