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...never really was-and certainly never wanted to be-"Zeke from Cabin Creek [W. Va.].") When asked the condition of a busted thumb or punctured cheekbone, Bird naturally replies: "Broke." Long, loose-limbed and 25, he shambles when he walks. His hair is as ruly as alfalfa and his complexion as adolescent as measles. From top to bottom, a distance measured to be 6 ft. 9 in., Bird could not be whiter if he were a professional blood donor. His yellow mustache suggests a gulp of buttermilk...
Exactly that sweeping solution-and a worldwide government of unspecified political complexion to carry it out-is the immodest proposal of the antinuclear movement's rallying point, Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth. The book first appeared as three articles in The New Yorker and met wide acclaim among opinion leaders. Walter Cronkite said it "may be one of the most important works of recent years." Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory said that the book was "working its way into the national psyche." Even journalists who disagreed with Schell's call for disarmament, like Columnist...
Bethell explained that this formality causes Phi Beta Kappa "to get a final club sort of a complexion...
...biting its older sister. At times, Margaret seems to have walked from a Thurber cartoon, inquiring in 1939, "Who is this Hitler, spoiling everything?" By her early 20s she has become a peculiar amalgam of Elizabeth Taylor and an acrylic doll, possessing "an almost Semitic beauty with a Lucite complexion...
...husky U.S. Army officer dressed in civilian clothes headed down the staid Boulevard Emile-Augier on his way to work at the U.S. embassy in Paris. Quietly, a man with a dark complexion and frizzy hair began to follow him. Before Lieut. Colonel Charles Robert Ray, 43, could reach his metallic blue Chevrolet with diplomatic plates, he was killed by a single shot that struck him in the back of the neck. The killer, who was glimpsed by several witnesses, ran down the quiet avenue and disappeared into a crowd of commuters...