Word: muskrat
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Cooper and Conrad took these tribulations in good humor. They listened to Dixieland jazz beamed from Houston-Al Hirt trumpeting Muskrat Ramble, Birth of the Blues, Jada. Houston felt light enough to joke about speculation that Gemini 5 would fall short of its attempt to stay up eight days and have to come down before Sunday. Said Paul Haney, Gemini public affairs chief: "There has been consideration given here to playing Never on Sunday, but it was ruled out as inappropriate." Soon after, Houston cockily played the song...
...Sunday's "Cattail Country" also had Perkins skimming around the lake in an airboat helping Government conservationists on a duck-banding roundup; on the same show Assistant Jim Fowler was in the Grand Tetons watching a beaver repair a broken dam and following a wet mink on a muskrat hunt...
...Civil War and slavery. There is much speculation on the quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most are inclined to go off and hole up with muskrat skinners in the swamp drink a jug of likker and just weep into the warm...
...SOMETHING WILD"-Stone, 48 East 86th. Three avant-gardians, each doing what he knows best. Apple Grower George Wardlaw sculpts and paints apples-green, delicious, crab, rotten and otherwise; ex-Mink Farmer Joseph Kurhajec makes fetishes of ferocity from blowtorched sheepskin, muskrat pelts, ram horns and chicken feathers; Rugmaker Dorothy Grebenak hand-weaves tapestries of U.S. Treasury bills, Con Edison manhole covers, even a nubby facsimile of a Gordon's gin label. Through...
...patron from chair, the better to read the gilt-embossed name card affixed to it, some players could be told without a program. Bigtime buyers for stores or manufacturers, from both the U.S. and Europe, tended to be short, squat, greying and myopic; they wore lumps of coats with muskrat collars, orthopedic shoes and chewed Sen-Sen by the handful. Lesser buyers, reluctant to pay the heavy cost of admission (often a promise to buy as much as $1,700 worth of merchandise) lurked around showroom exits, approaching departing guests with whispered offers of "anything, just name it-what about...