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Candy-Man. The most memorable of the Southern stories are harsher. There is Candy-Man Beechum, the epitaph to a huge Negro mule skinner's quirky heroism. Loping happily along to visit his Saturday-night girl, Candy-Man is shot down by a deputy, just because the deputy feels like it. Candy-Man says that the deputy shouldn't have done that. The deputy says to shut up or he will pull out his gun again and hurry Candy-Man along. "If that's the way it's to be," the dying man says back...
...Francisco's hungry 1, strapping, curly-haired Gregory Millar used to appear with his friend Mort Sahl, belting out pop songs in a voice vaguely reminiscent of Mario Lanza's. At the New York Philharmonic's first Saturday-night concert, Tenor Millar was sitting in a box at Carnegie Hall listening to Conductor-Pianist Leonard Bernstein conclude a fal tering performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Minutes later, and without warning, Millar was on the podium conducting the Philharmonic himself...
...make the sport as safe as a Saturday-night bath, Cousteau recommends a rigorous training course that, among other things, requires two divers to exchange all their equipment in 15 ft. of water. The best divers are reflective, methodical men who calmly do all the right things in a jam. They need not be especially powerful-in the weightless, silent world, a twitch of a flipper can provide all the power needed. Cousteau is convinced that nearly anyone with adequate training and common sense can learn to dive with an Aqua-Lung. Says he: "Free diving is safer than motorcycling...
...head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation in some Red Chinese factories) is the "Saturday-night system," under which a married woman worker lives in a factory dormitory, is alone with her husband only on the odd Saturday night when she has the use of a dormitory room all to herself...
...life memberships have risen with inflation to $10,000, even higher in some cities. Some 4,100 have bought lifetime memberships. Many have bought up to four, for themselves or to donate to charitable institutions, spend almost all their free time taking Arthur Murray lessons, attending Arthur Murray Saturday-night parties, and even going on "dancers' holidays" to Bermuda, Havana and Puerto Rico...