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...city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, in a byliner for his old newspaper. Wrote Walker of the drought belt's 1956: "It was the year the windmills pumped air, the fish died in the dusty ponds, the jack rabbits nibbled prickly pear, the baby quail fell into the cracks in the earth, the termites ate the onions, the bankers forgot how to laugh and the rattlesnakes crawled into the living room...
Thus Sportswriter Lenny Anderson described the grim days when losing coaches quail before alumni complaints and. in their wishful dreams, head south for a job at Georgia Tech, the school that has yet to fire a coach. But if the Yellow Jackets have a happy habit of hanging on to their coaches, the coaches have a happy habit of fielding winning teams. Last week, just to keep the record straight, Coach Robert Lee Dodd's unbeaten engineers eased past Duke's Blue Devils...
...seriously asked to trust . . . the decision over the hydrogen bomb to ... Nixon?" And once more, the crowd roared: "No!" In Los Angeles that night, 25,000 aggressive, confident Democrats caught the new spirit as Adlai carried on at Gilmore Field. They roared when he accused Ike of golfing, shooting quail or otherwise being out of touch during foreign and domestic crises. And there, for the first time, the crowd booed the President's name when Stevenson referred' to him as an honorable if misguided man ("Oh, he is an honorable man, my friends"). When Adlai flew...
Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), the biggest of the slobs, is a charming young chump who spends most of his life salting the local quail. When a beauty contest winner gets pregnant, he tries to leave town, but his father catches him on the wing, makes him marry the girl (Leonora Ruffo). His father-in-law then forces him to take a job in a shop that sells religious objects. Fausto tries to relieve his misery by flirting with the boss's wife, gets fired for his pains. Not long after, he spends the night with a showgirl (Maja Nipora), comes...
This dedicated quest for the quail leads Ashe to a strange world. In a Hollywood encampment in Tunisia, where Cosmic International is filming The Queen of Carthage, he finds the lovely Shala up to her violet eyes in swains. Her "little shock of incredulity" on seeing him for the first time yields to ever greater shocks as Ashe clanks through her admiring herd, disconcerting the urbane and unhorsing the sophisticated by sheer force of his awkward ardor. He pokes an oil princeling in the snoot, almost drowns the handsome son of the grand vizier. In a final melodramatic...