Word: ostrichized
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...this ostrich policy can't go on forever. Some issues will have to be met squarely and publicly. For one thing, Commissioner Ford Frick will have to rule on the propriety of having a college team put smack into a major league farm system. Will this violate the restrictions on dealing with amateurs? What minor league classification will Harvard be put into? Will Harvard players be subject to the annual player draft? Can the Cards send us players on option? Can they step in and shuffle the team's personnel if they aren't satisfied with its performance...
...what many South Africans had long feared: blocked by law, the Nationalists might use force. At 78-year-old Premier Malan's side last week were two hotheads. They were Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 58, Minister of Lands, and Charles Robberts Swart, 58, Minister of Justice. Strydom, onetime Transvaal ostrich farmer, has one consuming ambition: to become the first president of an Afrikaner republic wh:ch is outside the British Commonwealth. "Britain," he says, "stands for equal rights for everyone, irrespective of color or smell." A rabid racialist, he runs thq National Party machine...
...pockets, he usually carries a pen, pencils, paintbrushes, adhesive tape, wadded-up notes, neckties, socks, toothpaste and a list of telephone numbers. Thus equipped, he is ready to go anywhere and have a fine time (he once said: "I was born to go traveling around the world on an ostrich, but that could only be done in the 19th Century, when men had imagination and women's arms were round...
...cast of characters (e.g., Colonel Blimp, the trade-union workhorse, the escapist ostrich) which have helped make him the world's top political satirist, Low has added a tousle-haired, bewildered character called World Citizen. Said Strip-Father Low: World Citizen is an "ordinary fellow in contact with the difficulties and absurdities of the present day . . . contentious world." World Citizen is a young man who wears only a raincoat ("It would be all the better to draw him naked-life in the raw, you know"), no shoes ("He can't afford them"). He runs up against such absurdities...
...shop, Tex & Jinx McCrary put on a broadcast, and television's Dagmar, surrounded by a crowd of 7,000, had her automobile license plates ripped off as souvenirs. Inside the air-conditioned stores, shoppers snatched at bargains (chicken at 39? a lb.), boggled at such curiosities as ostrich eggs at $45 apiece, llama steaks...