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...this seasonal distraction in no way absolves the student from blame for his part in the daily dodge 'cm game. Cheerfully assuming that safety grows with numbers rather than with discretion, the Yard-bound crowds forget about cars in the hope that cars will forget about them. Taking the cue from any leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape the far curb. At the opposite extreme from the Cautious Upperclassman, the heedless flying wedge dares any motorist to watch out, with the result that a few fenders barely...
...John Hopley, 48, of San Antonio, won the title of World's Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...
...executive committee of the pinko Progressive Citizens of America (of which he is carefully not a member) urged him to run for President as an independent. If this move was calculated to set off a triumphal procession through the ranks of "liberals" and organized labor, someone had missed the cue. Actually, it started a spontaneous rush for the doors. Great segments of potential Wallace strength vanished in a storm of disaffection...
...Right on cue, a dapper, greying man in a brown double-breasted pin stripe, wearing a pair of heavy shell-rimmed glasses, sauntered jauntily up to the witness stand. As the applause quickened, he turned, bowing and smiling to his expectant audience, maneuvering his profile skillfully in the fusillade of exploding flashbulbs. With forefinger dramatically outstretched, he raised his hand for the oath. To the first, identifying question he replied: "Motion picture actor-I hope...
Nobody was hurt, and tear gas soon routed the miners. But it was the perfect cue for González to strike still harder at his late allies and their international tutors. That afternoon he summoned his Cabinet. Then, charging that the Soviet Union had "inspired grave attempts against the political independence of the republic," he sent a curt note to Russia's Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov, breaking off diplomatic relations. For good measure, he broke with Czechoslovakia...