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Herdbound. In Philadelphia, when U.S. District Court jurors lined up to march back to the courthouse after lunch, 100 passersby, thinking it a nylon queue, fell in behind...
...Over at the streetcar queue police fired into the air, driving commuters into a panic. Police got excited and clubbed Commies and non-Commies alike. Ambulances were almost as thick as taxicabs. Right in the middle of all this I ran into an American named Weeks who had just arrived. 'My,' said Mr. Weeks, 'Rio is an exciting place...
...audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants, queue, knavery, cataclysm, colander, staccato, abscess...
Street of Dignity. To reach his automobile, Gromyko passed through a queue of nylon seekers in front of the grey Soviet Consulate on East 61st Street. (Gromyko knows that Americans talk about nylons much more than about the atomic bomb.) The Cadillac turned into the dignified but flabby reaches of Fifth Avenue as matrons, becalmed by $3 luncheons, heaved out into the 4 o'clock sunshine. At Tiffany's or Cartier's, where a brooch might cost almost as much as a light tank, men & women paused to glance at displays with a diluted, good-natured envy...
Last week police were called out to control men & women who fought to queue up in immunization lines. Public vaccina tion centers were set up in schools, colleges, industrial plants and even firehouses. At week's end, five people had died, 24 more had the disease, three other "possibles" were closely watched...