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...starting five was 6-ft. 8-in. Spencer Hay wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year-old rubber-company foreman. And with only three weeks to prepare for the Olympics, the makeshift U.S. squad hardly seemed a match for taller Russian and Yugoslavian teams that had been playing together ever since the 1964 Olympics...
...which they play two aging homosexuals. "It's the most exciting picture I've done in years," sighed Rex Harrison of his part in the movie adaptation of Charles Dyer's play, Staircase. "I love it," said Richard Burton, even though he has to wear a makeshift turban because the character he portrays is ashamed of his baldness...
...them. Two bunny-clad waitresses took one look and capsized in a dead faint. By now the breakdown of police discipline was complete. Bloodied men and women tried to make their way into the hotel lobby. Upstairs on the 15th floor, aides in the McCarthy headquarters set up a makeshift hospital...
...main concern was with the young people below. "Oh, Dad," pleaded his daughter Mary, "help them!" That evening he went down to his staff headquarters on the 15th floor, where his doctor, William Davidson, had opened a makeshift hospital. McCarthy comforted the bruised and bleeding. A girl who had been injured wept hysterically, and photographers crowded around her. Only then did McCarthy show the emotion reporters had looked for during nine long months of arduous campaigning. "Get out of the way, fellows. You don't have to see anything. Get the hell...
...What is Secretary of State Dean Rusk's idea of a vacation?" runs a current Washington gag. Answer: "He puts on a sports shirt and goes to the office." Only by exercising their ingenuity do any members of Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet beat the system to organize makeshift vacations for themselves. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd forgets horsepower and highways by bicycling on towpaths along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part...