Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true personality," but steered him to an ear doctor who restored his hearing with an operation. Suddenly, he recalls, "the violent, silent world inside me erupted. I came out of my shell." And how. Exclaims Bazelon: "I became outgoing, warm, animated, tremendously buoyant -a rock 'em, sock 'em personality. And my music became just as dramatic as I am." exit Irwin; enter...
...Capitol Police Department, charged with protecting the House and Senate buildings, boasts some of the world's best-educated cops-and some of the least efficient. More than half of the 248-man force consists of meagerly trained, patronage-appointed college students whose ambitions seldom em brace advancement in the gendarmerie (the annual turnover is 82%). At any rate, there was not a cop in sight last week when a Capitol janitor stabbed and robbed Republican James C. Cleveland of New Hampshire late at night in his office. Inevitably, the incident revived memories of the day in 1954 when...
...found it everywhere-in religion, patriotism, politics, ethnic pride and national vanity. With baffled awe and unquenchable laughter, he looked upon man as the most arrogant of the apes and found him passing strange: "Man is the only animal who's got the true religion-several of 'em." Twain wonders aloud if mankind would not have been better off if Noah had missed the Ark: "To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French...
...bowed to the East and then shadow-boxed. In the opening rounds he danced around to the left, bounced occasionally off the ropes, raised his hands over his head and then dropped them below his waist, and waved to the crowd when they booed his antics and dodge-em tactics...
...except the scene in unheated Dee Stadium, where it seemed that half of Houghton was watching the home-town Huskies of Michigan Technological University take on Minnesota of the Big Ten for the second time in two days. Perched on window casings and rafters, the fans screamed "Hit 'em! Hit 'em!" and amused themselves by hurling nickels, dimes, and even a firecracker onto the ice - until the announcer begged them to stop "because our boys could get hurt, too." When Tech won 5-4, they trooped off to the Ambassador Grille to toast the victory...