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...best songs are "Lazy Summer" and "One Born Every Minute" (two very groovy tunes with lots of chimes, kazoos, concertinas, and other new sounds), "God" (an old Lampoon song about who is responsible for poverty, earthquakes, and the striking of such instruments of Fate as lightning), "The Surprising Sheep" (the title song alluding to the old Lampoon joke: "See the merino standing there with his long shaggy hair"), and "Welcome to the Club" (a song so much like the Lovin' Spoonful that someone ought to do something about...
...upstairs bedrooms, visitors will hear an unusual tourist's guide recorded by Rose Kennedy. In it she says: "The President was born in a twin bed near the window on May 29, 1917, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They always used the bed near the window, so if the baby were born in the daytime the light would be better for the doctor. Years later, when Jack was elected President, I thought how fortunate I was, out of all the mothers in the United States, to have my son inaugurated President on that cold, cold...
...gathered with his followers in the anteroom of the holy tomb of the Mahdi in Omdurman. Dressed in a white silk galabia, he spoke in a whisper, but he professed not to be discouraged by the army takeover and hinted that there might be further upheaval. "Any coup is born with a countercoup," he told TIME Correspondent William Smith, adding, "We believe our task in the ultimate reform of the Sudan is not made more difficult by what has happened...
Bitter Beginnings. Times were not always so good for Johnny, fourth of the seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes...
Moral Search. Dave, the numbers king, is a forebear of today's black radicals, a sort of "new Negro" whose drive for power and respectability is born of pride, anger and an awareness of his heritage. At best, his racket can bring him power only at the cost of respectability, and even that power is sharply circumscribed...