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Genghis Cohn, a Yiddish music-hall comedian, is on his last stage. The stage is Auschwitz, and his audience is a German firing squad. But he seizes the opportunity for a last punch line. He turns his naked rump to the executioners and says: "Kush mir in tokhes!," which in Yiddish means "Kiss my ass!" Herr Captain Schatz, the man who has been placidly shooting Jews down on order, is so shaken that he accords Cohn the unusual respect of examining the corpse and ordering it clothed. Seeing an opportunity to keep his act going, Cohn's ghost slips...
Griffin's rump group would have no hope on a direct vote, but with Congress rushing toward a hoped-for Aug. 3 adjournment, it might get its way with a filibuster. Though Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could ask for a vote of cloture to limit debate, he would need a two-thirds majority, always difficult to come...
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...told to climb no higher than 12 ft. off the ground? So Mr. Munson fell out of a tree house as a child, and cut his arm. May he do so again-but this time from a 5-in.-diameter hardwood branch! And may he land-rump first -on a 16-penny nail...
There is every expectation that a slate of far-right delegates pledged to George Wallace will be entered in the primary. Getting on the ballot is relatively easy since only 13,000 signatures are required. At the other extreme, an ultra-liberal rump, the California Democratic Council, has announced that if the war is not over by September, it will then hold its own convention to choose a delegation pledged to a candidate who opposes Administration policy in Viet Nam. If the Democratic vote does split four ways in next June's primary...