Word: kook
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...even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel, though it was the Sabbath, on which traveling is a profanation to the Orthodox, students from Talmudic academies jumped into trucks bound for the frontiers with the solemn exhortation of noted Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook ringing in their ears: "Go! This is a matter of saving life, for which the Sabbath may lawfully be desecrated...
From the tip of his razor-cut hair to the toes of his orange (or pink or avocado) patent-leather golf shoes, Sanders is a confirmed, color-coordinated kook. Twice married and twice divorced, he is wildly superstitious, mildy neurotic, engagingly extraverted and outrageously hedonistic. Women? "I'm afraid of dying," he sighs. "That's why I love so hard." Liquor? "I've spilled more," says Sanders, "than Tony Lema swallowed...
...singing at the top of her lungs. She doesn't do these things at the same time, but nobody would be surprised if she did. In a town where everybody plays the angles and wholesomeness is something of an aberration, Julie Andrews, 31, is tolerated as a delightful kook...
...turned out to be something of a kook's tour. First there was that midnight wedding in Las Vegas with the bride in a short shrift of a shift and the groom in the sockless sports outfit he happened to have on when they jetted out of Paris. Then Brigitte Bardot, 31, and her new, third husband, Gunter Sachs, 33, roared off to Hollywood for a Mad Hatter nuptial dinner, with Danny Kaye personally whipping up his special seven-course Chinese feed for the couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl...
...considered that the right to bear arms was eminently sensible for a sober people who had to tame a raw land with hundreds of perilous frontiers. The U.S. of 1966 has no marauding Redcoats or redskins, but it still has plenty of guns. Firearms can be bought by any kook or crook in Maryland pawnshops, in Texas sporting-goods stores or from any one of hundreds of mail-order houses-as the assassination of President Kennedy tragically illustrated...