Word: cuckoos
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...sophisticated Arabs of Khartoum, the balloting went off without a hitch. But in the western deserts, election officials in jouncing jeeps had to chase down camel-riding nomads to collect their ballots. In the Nuba region, voter identification was complicated by the local habit of naming all eldest sons Cuckoo. Several precincts in the eastern mountains reported that voters were showing up with entirely different names from those under which they registered, because the local practice is always to change names after the annual religious wrestling matches...
Enfilade. In Milwaukee, Ulysses Simon, charged with attempting to kill a woman he shot in the back, was let off with a $100 fine and a year's probation for negligent use of a weapon, when the woman testified he fired not at her but at a nearby cuckoo clock...
Even in Hollywood's Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, all falls are not prat. Last week doorknob-bald Cinemidol Yul Brynner looked more dashed than dashing after he tried some Cossack-style horsemanship for MGM's The Brothers Karamazov, swooped too low, fractured a vertebra. And Cinemactress Rita Hayworth kicked up her heels during the Pal Joey shooting, got sent to the showers with a gimpy tendon...
...fairly new way to treat a neurotic woman. The treatment-which was theatrical, not medical, and consisted of physically landscaping her troubled mind and fleshing her ugly memories-was unsuccessful, as it was basically unwise. But in a flabby season, at least Playwright Laurents (The Time of the Cuckoo) attempted something provocative and at times achieved something striking; and Kim Stanley (Bus Stop) was frequently brilliant in a taxing role...
Since not even all Communist leaders are alike, the Kremlin tries to put their differences to work. The result is something like an old-fashioned cuckoo clock with a smiling face emerging to indicate sunshine and a dour face to indicate storm. The idea used to work like clockwork, too: dour or smiling, the face was still Communist. But the leaders whom the Kremlin now has to call on are men.who have suffered for their deviations, Marxists with the mark of Communist prisons on them, and ideas of their own. The men called back to power in Hungary last week...