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...many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly every movie star who ever lived-yet there are other impressionists who can keep up with...
Editor Neal, a 1945 West Point graduate who later resigned his commission to run the family newspaper, says that he is all for a traffic crackdown, but he insists that New's method will simply clog the court with jury trials, while cops who must testify on their days off will merely stop making arrests. Judge New, who has disqualified himself for Neal's forthcoming nonjury trial, argues that, nonetheless, Neal has no right to predict future court actions. "If, in fact, I had sent a little old lady to jail for driving too slow, he could editorialize...
...first time made Peru the world's No. 1 fishing nation. Some 155 fish-meal plants now operate along the coast. In the north-coast town of Chimbote, the population has exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...
...cannot really have good transportation when you build a road to unclog roads. Then when it becomes clogged, you build another road," one man declared. "These roads will just clog up again. The real answer is mass transit...
...takes 6 hours and 37 minutes to deliver it. In the speech, Johnson stresses the War on Poverty and lashes out at "those centers of population in this beloved country where the disparity between the rich and the poor is only too evident, where evil is inevitably spawned to clog the bloodstream of our nation. These centers --suburban Phoenix, suburban Los Angeles--must be rehabilitated," he emphasizes...