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...volunteerist esprit de corps. Nowadays women and men of all ages are only too willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed in a statuary group of Pygmalion and Galatea, a pigeon mistook her for the real thing and attempted a landing. Slipping on her gooey body makeup, the bird dug in its claws and drew blood. Mennen remained as immobile as her bronze original, earning a standing ovation...
Back in the '60s when the Paul Taylor Dance Company traveled to the hinterlands, people mistook the troupe for the June Taylor Dancers from the Jackie Gleason Show. The confusion ended at curtain time. Then, instead of metronomic chorines, the stage was peopled with muscular, disciplined dancers falling, posturing and accelerating to everything from Bach to Cage. Dressed as Elizabethan figures or satyrs in evening clothes, or in nothing more than bath towels, the company disturbed as many as it dazzled...
...Georgetown's 6-ft. 3-in. guard Sleepy Floyd one time and then worried whether his friend was all right; both come from Gastonia, N.C. Carolina Guard Jimmy Black had some rough words with Floyd during the game but only sweet ones for him later. And Brown, who mistook Wor thy for a teammate and in a horrifying misfire tossed his team's last chance away, stood up bravely to waves of questions...
...strike first. The system also has numerous and sophisticated built-in safeguards that make the danger of accidental war quite remote. True, there have been false alerts, and Ground Zero's Roger Molander recalls a bizarre incident in the mid-1960s when a newly installed radar warning system mistook the rising of the moon for a massive Soviet missile attack. Still, the fear that a faulty computer chip, a flock of geese or a mad lieutenant could push a crisis beyond the point of no return has been exaggerated...
...modernity, one's mother, the computer and the post office. "The dog ate my homework" is a favorite with schoolchildren. And a new plane of inventiveness was reached recently when a Virginia man killed his mother-in-law in the garage with a hatchet and explained that he mistook her for a raccoon...