Word: brooding
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Selma Sheriff Jim Clark, a big man with balding head and a button reading the antithesis of Lackey. He rules his office an air of pomposity, as his brood of scream and deputy sheriffs hover reverently about radio monitor crackled with the "There's a bunch of 'em with signs head west on Jeff Davis Avenue, toward the houses." Clark flicks a switch on the and drawls, "Find out what they're doin a call me back...
Last week, after putting most of their brood to bed, the Hands took off on a typical night out, this time to the home of Pakistani Ambassador Ghulam Ahmed. Arriving 15 minutes late, they found the room divided: Algeria, Austria and Niger to one side, wives to the other. While Lloyd Hand watched approvingly, it took his wife, gowned in black chiffon, no more than 30 seconds to integrate the all-male group, pull the party together in one wide, admiring circle around...
Nine years before, his mother's frosty ways drove his late father to walk out on the Hawkes brood of seven. At 25, Ben Joe is head of the house. But only nominally, for his sisters, even the ten year-old, are as self-possessed as Mother. Drawn by his need to be needed, Ben Joe takes the night train back to Sandhill, N.C. Five nights later, he is traveling north again, with the bitter realization that he is still unneeded at home. But with him is his diffident, dependent old high school girl to serve...
...TACKLES: Ralph Neely, 21, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 5 in., 261 Ibs., and Harry Schuh, 21, Memphis State, 6 ft. 3 in., 265 Ibs. Neely has all the physical requirements -"a rough, tough charger with good elbow movement, quick at the snap"-but the pros brood about his motivation. "The appeal of money," muses a scout, "might make him achieve real dedication." Of Schuh: "Amazing agility and speed, could...
Born. To Felisberto Mutangua, 36, African vegetable farmer, and Clara Bulane Mutangua, 32: quintuplets, four boys and a girl (weights ranging from 2 Ibs. 12 oz. to 3 Ibs. 5 oz.), doubling the size of their brood; in Inhambane, Mozambique. Four days after birth the babies lived through an 11-hour, 212-mile ambulance ride along bumpy roads to a hospital in Lourenco Marques, thus vastly improving their chance to become history's fifth set of quints to survive...