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...more businesslike tone, e.g., a speech on U.S. defense by Massachusetts' Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Here and there, a speaker attacked the "Warren" Supreme Court: Mississippi's James Eastland scornfully labeled the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1957 Civil Rights Act as "crap" (though a thoughtful clerk recorded it as "claptrap"). Arkansas' William Fulbright, time-tested segregationist, took the occasion to lambaste President Eisenhower for turning the U.S. into "a 20th century Babylon, headless and heartless, a big fat target of the ably led Communist world and the clamoring, poverty-ridden new states...
...Mary Ahern, 37, a well-shampooed alumna of Boston's Girls Latin School and Radcliffe, finds writers for shows, advises them and usually edits their scripts, has long aided and edited Lenny Bernstein. Says she amiably of R.S.A.'s relaxed working methods: "A floating crap game." ¶ David Oppenheim, 37, a tall, solemn, black-thatched clarinetist and onetime head of the masterworks division at Columbia Records, serves as a general scout for new shows and talent. He has been a Saudek associate less than a year, quips that he welcomed the chance "to get away from music...
...deep mysteries on Wall Street, put and call options have long been among the most baffling to investors. Many market players shy away from the options, consider them as risky as a crap game. But that is just not so, says jaunty, white-haired Herbert Filer, 65, head of Filer, Schmidt & Co., the nation's largest stock option dealer. This week, in Understanding Put and Call Options (Crown; $3), the first book on the business to be published in the U.S., Filer presents a case for using options to reduce stock market risks as well as for speculating...
...bookie. Unhappily, once he is in, he discovers that another member of the gang is a paranoid punk from Oklahoma (Robert Ryan) who would sooner risk the bundle than his sense of white supremacy. The punk calls the Negro "Brother Bones," and warns him not to "crap out" on the job. "Ah been handlin' [Negroes] all mah life. He's no diff'ent because he's got him a twenty-dollah pair a shoes...
...Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...