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...dutifully grabbed a partner and rushed out onto the floor. The caller yelled, "All right, we'll try a Texas Star, (cries of amazement and bewilderment). "What? You don't know how to do that?" (verification from the floor) "It's easy. We'll run through it without music first. Ready? Okay...
...Balance ... balance ... cross ... balance. All the men form a star! Balance ... cross ... balance ... WALTZ! There! now you've got it. ALLEMANDE RIGHT!" (Music) All the dancers gaily executed the directions, and loved the square dance even if it was confusing when the caller shouted something that made them hunt for a new partner...
...N.A.A.C.P., that though it had lent him money in the past, it would not do so in the future. Other citizens have taken up the practice of calling Stringer's mother up in the middle of the night to report: "Dr. Stringer has been killed." Added one imaginative caller: "Do you have his body...
...Snow Goose has been seen at Plum Island, and the Canada Jay is still at Orange..." So far so good. But then the machine went on: "Please leave your message after the double signal," and follows this with a beautiful thirty second silence, compliments of Audubon, during which the caller may say anything he wished--supposedly reporting the birds he's seen. The recording machine holds only fifteen minutes of bird reports, and at the end of the tape Mrs. Emery has to play it back and jot down the reported birds...
...pronounces (approximately) as Zho-wahn Kah-Jay Feel-yo. *'Six hundred thousand cruzeiros a year-$8,500 at the current free rate. *But after he became President, his first non-military caller was the Roman Catholic Archbishop...