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...talked in the Yard of Ale, a woman in the next booth suddenly began to argue with her male companion in a shrill boozy voice that carried from one end of the restaurant to the other. The manager glided over and tried to herd them out the door. The man, ashen with embarrassment, insisted, "I don't know this woman, I've never seen her before in my life." "You're my husband and you know it," she whined. "We've got three children at home and the freezer's empty. How am I supposed to get home? I haven...
...Without exception, every American adult should have the vote. Then perhaps we can herd more illiterates to the polls and fill our halls of Congress with Adam Clayton Powells...
Unimposing Sounds. What he's thinking is very much his own. "You cain't roller-skate in a buffalo herd," suggests his favorite song, "but you can be happy if you've a mind to." In a twangy baritone that is happy scatting, whoop-whooping, country yodeling or just plain singing, he has recorded 25 songs on two LPs, all but one of them his own. But somehow his name is not widely known. It is probably because he does not impose himself, any more than he imposes his lyrics...
...called "Special Sector," made up of Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Special Forces, which on two occasions in the past month has surprised Viet Cong units within mortar range of the airstrip. Last week one flustered patrol reported "enemy" activity, and Danang's artillery opened up-on a herd of 15 wild elephants...
...scenes of injustice"-a Negro lynching, street riots, the desolation of Hiroshima, decaying bodies stacked in graves -flashed on dozens of various-sized screens, some dropped from the flies, others held aloft by the chorus in a jigsaw pattern. While the words "And you? Are you blind like a herd of cattle?" appeared on one screen, the TV cameras raked the audience and projected their faces onstage in self-conscious closeups...