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...characteristic crouch, "sort of a break in the knees, like a guy on first base waiting to steal second." Dancers are also expected to clench their hands like paws and grapple with an invisible necktie, then place their hands behind the back in the "duck" position (palms outward). The dance, says one Philadelphia record promoter, evolved out of a "vulgar and risque" tail-wagging Kentucky dance called the Dog, which was banned in several cities. Says he: "The kids in Philly improvised on it and cleaned it up a little." But before adults crouch down in first-base position, they...
...reasoned summation was offered by Columnist Max Lerner. "Many will view the whole Honolulu venture as a tricky Johnsonian gimmick to give the outward semblance of activity when there is no substance of progress in the war," he wrote. "But it would be serious to underestimate the President or believe that his moves have been wholly histrionic. There is a logic to his latest move, the logic of adding political warfare as a third phase of the American effort, to fill out the triangle whose other two sides are formed by the military operations and the diplomatic operations...
...fire to their shacks, then stripped to the buff and hurled their clothing into the flames. But then, under the leadership of a hot-eyed fanatic named Peter Lordly Verigin, self-appointed "Son" Stefan Sorokin, and a 240-lb. stripper called "Big Fanny" Storgoff, the Freedomite flames turned outward...
...fraternal complacency that has characterized some Nieman classes in the past is on the wane under Sargent's leadership. His quiet nature discourages the club atmosphere. But although he has diminished the inward focus of the Nieman program, he has not done much to enlarge the outward perspective...
Once an ominous flare is sighted, word will have to be flashed quickly to the lunar astronauts. Speeding outward from the sun, 93 million miles away, the first deadly protons could begin hitting the moon an hour after the first flare sighting. The lethal rain would become increasingly strong, reaching a maximum about six hours later. Long before that maximum, though, if all went well, the astronauts would have blasted off in their LEM to rendezvous and found safety within the protective skin of the orbiting Apollo...