Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stranger's Guide to the City of Washington advises: "You will neither chew tobacco in the lady's drawing room nor swallow the warm water contained in the finger bowls." Well that doesn't hardly happen any more. Still, the Woman's National Democratic Club decided that it was time for a new primer for capital hostesses and published Party Diary: Planning Ahead and the "Fete" Accompli, a 100-page guidebook anthologizing social notes and comments from the city's experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary...
...caught six smugglers - four men and two women - loaded with diamonds privately concealed. So it was that last week one John Wina was asked to bend over and submit to the routine check when he showed up in Kinshasa fresh from the mining country. The law's probing finger produced six capsules of white diamonds. Kassanda's cops some how felt they had missed a carat or two. Over Wina's shrill protests, they applied a purgative, and voila, as if by magic, there suddenly appeared 60 more plastic capsules containing no less than 1,500 carats...
Durrell made side trips to Malaysia and New Zealand, but the dramatic high point of the book is his meticulously observed birth of a kangaroo in southeastern Australia: it emerges as a pinkish, gleaming blob no longer than the first joint of a man's little finger, and is deposited on the mother's tail. Practically an embryo, the baby must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent...
...startling that Michigan and Berkeley complied with the subpoenas without lifting a legal finger. It is more frightening, because it hits closer to home, that Harvard doesn't know what it would do if subpoenaed for membership lists. The matter will be under discussion soon, Dean Monro said last week...
...liberal eyebrow arches at these goings-on, and the liberal finger is quick to point at sly ol' LBJ as prime mover in the proceedings. The truth is that the Administration didn't dare ask for a specific long-term appropriation, what with the Vietnam War and the Great Society, and indications are that the bureaucracy is every bit as surprised as the rest...