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Actually, that idea goes back to the Republic's earliest days when Ambassador Ben Franklin appeared at the Court of Versailles wearing an old coat and wielding a crab-apple stick. The name for their own current version of people-to-people diplomacy was suggested by Ambassador Galbraith. Said he: "We don't want the Showy American. We don't want the Ugly American. I am quite willing to settle for the Natural American...
Morning. Sunshine. Palm trees. "We're alive!" Unfortunately, so is the giant crab, 18 ft. from claw to claw, that comes scuttling down the beach. After a fearful battle, the monster plops into a boiling hot spring. The castaways breakfast heartily on boiled crab, then sight a small boat drifting ashore. What luck! The boat just happens to contain what every cinema castaway most urgently requires: women...
...Crab Grass & Berets. In the White House, Kennedy is still a man in near-perpetual motion, interested in everything that goes on about him and casual enough to take a hand in anything that interests him. Amid his other duties, he had time to notice crab grass on the White House lawn and order it removed, and to order the Army's Special Forces to put back on the green berets that had earlier been banned ("They need something to make them distinctive"). When he wanted a haircut a few weeks ago after a hard day of work...
...productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, settling down with apparent permanence and the blessing of Moses. But before long, a celebrated feud arose in which the commissioner tried to force Papp to charge admission, claiming that festival audiences were damaging Central Park's crab grass. Papp took the case to court...
...charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw hat-and a set of military uniforms. Then, mixing himself an oldfashioned, he settled down to begin his two weeks' summer training with the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th...