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...lady when his rendezvous is suddenly thwarted by a policeman. One of his best series resulted when in 1967 he came across a book by Robert W. Service, whose poetry he had loved as a child. Service's Yukon saloons,^ Canadian Mounties and rootin' tootin' shoot-em-ups meshed perfectly with Copley's scampering W.C. Fields style and his love of Victoriana. The lady is often nude ("Women's bodies are very charming"), the man always clothed ("I don't find nude men charming at all"). Whether waged with sword, six-shooter or mutual...
...Heir in Sight. Swept by torrential rains, the race became a dangerous game of dodge 'em in which the only strategy was survival. After a few sloshy turns around the twisting, 8.4-mile course, Ferrari Driver Ronnie Bucknum allowed that "this race makes Indianapolis look like a Sunday drive. I was plain terrified most of the time." Ferrari, which had eleven entries, lost five cars in the first three hours, three in a single accident. Early the next morning Belgian Driver Jacky Ickx slammed his Ferrari 5125 into a one-lane S-curve in an attempt to overtake Swiss...
...himself on Harvard by donating a grotesquely hideous building, which is now known as the Lampoon Castle (and always has been, since Hearst was a member of the Lampoon in his undergraduate days). The building is for some odd reason triangular in shape, and has five street addresses (count em): 29 Plympton St., 44 Bow St., 57 Mt. Auburn St., 1 Holyoke Court, and Zero Freedom Square). The tenants of this building put out a magazine several times a year, which brings us to our next point...
...That looks like you're hauling 'em in like cattle," explains the Rev. William McKinley Branch, the county's black voting chairman. Volunteer housewives in Kinston, N.C., decided the house-to-house approach was too slow. They invaded poolrooms and grocery stores in black neighborhoods, stopped pedestrians on sidewalks - and managed in one two-week period to coax 850 blacks off the streets to register...
...even to the otiose point of having important speeches delivered from the pulpit. The electronic sound effects that thump and mutter portentously reflect not so much Newness as good, old gothic hokum. But these mechanical excesses hardly detract from a vibrant updating of the quintessential symbol of love 'em and leave 'em. The presentation deserves not to be left in New Haven...