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...regrouped as guerrillas, making the plains their stronghold. Soon killing became an end in itself, sadistic and without cause. Some machete-wielding fighters specialized in the franela cut, in which the victim's head was sheared from his body with an incision resembling the circular neckline of a flannel undershirt; others preferred the cor bat a -one slice across the throat, through which the victim's tongue was pulled, to look like a necktie. With the grim slogan of "Leave no seed," children were murdered, men emasculated, pregnant women cut open...
Robin Hood in Flannel? In Keene, N.H., Rocky's social-welfare ideas were challenged by a Keene Teachers College sophomore, Jon Tate, 22, and a lively debate followed. Excerpts...
Tate: Aren't you a Robin Hood in a grey flannel suit...
...enlivened the debate briefly by ridiculing Morse. "With a decent approach and with no Senator feeling that all the wisdom reposes in him alone, we can get out of here on schedule," said Dirksen. Otherwise, he predicted, Senators will sit around their Christmas tree Dec. 25 "in their red flannel pajamas," watching their grandchildren, and suddenly remember that "we didn't finish foreign aid." Morse led a move to try to send the whole bill back to the committee with instructions to completely reorganize the aid program; the move failed...
...Probus (PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS) Club, among dozens of other such groups. Cosmopolitan Washington has its Recorder Society, Foggy Bottom Chamber Music Group, and Potomac English Handbell Ringers. And Manhattan, naturally, has an ad-agency outfit called The Many Splendored Stompers, whose theme song is Man in a Gray Flannel Stomp...