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...into the pokey for swindling several victims out of $45,000 in a phony nylon deal. Sidney had been ungentlemanly enough to say that he had blown most of the swag on Rosemary, and Rosemary was afraid this was leading to a ghastly, ghastly misunderstanding. She considered Levy a "creep," she cried in tones of outraged virtue, and also a "congenital idiot." Her relations with him, she added firmly, had been only platonic. Then Rosemary poured out the classic story of the showgirl and the predatory stage-door Johnny...
Weber and Hayek rounded up a nucleus of professionals. For the rest, says Weber, "we took in everyone who could creep and crawl." The non-pros include mailmen, policemen, engineers, salesmen and a chiropodist. One musician, an accountant, rides his motorcycle 30 miles from his Watertown job, wearing an old Air Force flying suit over his tuxedo, to play. Until she retired to have her fourth baby, his wife used to ride with him, clutching her cello. Now, at their five concerts a year in the Soo-seat Waukesha High School auditorium, Waukeshans hear creditable and sometimes even polished performances...
...Doubts Creep In. Some Senators doubted if the services could absorb draftees quickly enough, even if the 18-year-old manpower pool was made available. Said Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, subcommittee chairman: "You come up before this committee asking us to draw up legislation for the drafting of 18-year-olds, and at the same time men are rapping at your door and you can't take them...
Some Soviet scientists might be reassured. Others would continue to watch their instruments suspiciously lest heretical ideas creep out of them...
Could make stones creep like ivy stems...