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Some of Lehrer's numbers were old standbys updated ("Back to good old Dixie, where the jasmine and the tear gas smell jes' fine"). Others, like Pollution ("The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay / They drink at lunch in San Jose"), were written by Lehrer for TV's That Was the Week That...
...inaction takes place smack-dab in Columbus, Texas, where Georgette (Lee Remick) toils as a carhop at the Magnolia Drive-in. Her no-good husband Henry (Steve McQueen) is a parolee who heads a string band and hankers to get famous with his songs, like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide a hundred head of cattle could...
...comin' to the Inauguration, Aunt Jessie?" asked the Chief. Mrs. Jes sie Hunter, a widow and an old friend of the family, shook her head, flustered. "I haven't been asked," she piped politely. The President of the U.S. put his arm around the elderly woman. "Pack your dress," he said in that soft, earnest tone, "and come on with us. Be at the ranch no later than 4:40. Air Force One won't leave without...
...whom the search was started. They were prisoners in what Mexican newspapers called "a concentration camp for white slaves," complete with tiny cells and grisly torture devices. In the house, police arrested two notorious white slavers, Delfina González Valenzuela, 55, her sister María de Jesús, 40, and a handful of their helpers. A few weeks later police picked up a third sister, Eva. Further search at the ranch and at two brothels owned by the sisters uncovered the remains of 17 young women and five babies...
...Jes" Teched Him Off." The enemy gunners could not hit York without wounding some of their own soldiers. And no German who peered over his gun to figure out what to do lived long enough to regret it. "Every time one of 'em raised his head, I jes' teched him off," York later explained. He fired 17 times-and 17 enemy soldiers died. Finally, German officers on the hill realized that York was virtually alone, sent eight men charging him with bayonets. York had used up all his rifle bullets, but he took out his pistol and picked...