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...full Baedeker tour of the county's delights, the visiting fireman can stop in Hammond (some gambling and prostitution), Whiting (gambling), or Griffith, where the favorite form of recreation is "Lucky 7s" and "Triple 50s," in which the player puts a quarter or half-dollar into a jar, receives a numbered slip, then waits hopefully for his jackpot...
...Late Show. Their memories are less of Benchley than of Berkeley, and, in the absence of much protest humor, they have concentrated on deliberate absurdities that refuse to deal with the adult world. Such were the elephant jokes (What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth) and the more recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate...
David Henry, 60, Illinois. A stiff individualist (he insists on spelling words his way, such as enrolment with one 1), Henry has a cold, efficient manner that can jar a meeting into action. He is executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home...
...central-highlands town of Ban Me Thuot last week, South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky became an honorary member of the Rhade tribe. It was a memorable experience. First his combat boots were washed in rice wine from a ritual jar into which the flesh of a sacrificial buffalo had been dipped. Then, as the beast's severed head and tail lay near by, a montagnard sorcerer summoned divine spirits to witness an oath of friendship, and a rebel officer swore allegiance to Saigon Finally, to seal the pledge, two smiling girls presented Ky with...
...says Father Nedel. "If they are not Controlled, they will take over all the other bees and they will take over Brazil. Says São Paulo Beekeeper Luiz Zovaro who keeps African bees, but has had to raise the price of honey from 39? to almost $2 a jar because it is so difficult to extract honeycombs from their hives: "If they are not stopped Brazil will no longer be safe. I am very discouraged about the future...