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...first western, Leone changed his name to Bob Robertson and imported Clint Eastwood, a lanky, rawboned drover on TV's Rawhide. Eastwood's image was too clean-cut for an antihero, so Leone added the necessary smudges-slouch hat, black cheroot, stubble beard and a ratty-looking scrape. For the villain's role, he hired veteran horse-opera heavy Lee Van Cleef, and the shooting commenced...
...spite of their common goal, one would never expect three groups of such varying philosophical outlook as the CNC, Draft Resistance Group, and Vote on Vietnam to work side by side in complete harmony. And indeed there has been at least one minor scrape between the CNC and Vote...
...chairman of the division of social sciences, Jones wrote, "I am sure that my association with the campus-based Friends of SNCC had nothing to do with my firing. After all, Texas Southern is committed to the emancipation of the Negro. And we do not bow and scrape simply to please powerful persons external to the University...
...glaring funding imbalances, however, occur on the state and local level. In 1966 Governor Rockefeller spent $7 million in winning the governorship of New York. His opponent, Frank O'Connor, was able to scrape up only a half million. If O'Connor were to run again in 1970, he would receive no money. But based on the Long formula, struggling candidate Lyndon Johnson may receive 30 million dollars in 1968. Financing presidential campaigns may suit Lyndon Johnson's plans for '68, but it hardly suits Long's rhetoric (studded with references to the "poor boy making good" and boys from...
Delicious Legality. The kick is known to hippies as "electrical bananas" or "mellow yellow."* Banana-heads scrape the white fibers from the inside of the peels, boil the scrapings into a paste, which is then baked. The dark brown ash that results is smoked in hand-rolled cigarette "joints" or in pipes, tastes vaguely like a burning compost heap...