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...Cover) "This country," said General William Tecumseh Sherman, meaning Florida, "is not worth a damn."* Naturalist John James Audubon reported: "All that is not mud, mud, mud is sand, sand, sand." As of today, Sherman is wrong and Audubon is for the birds...
...geographical judgment not to be confused with an observation by one of Sherman's fellow officers. Said General Phil Sheridan: "If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." - From the Yiddish noshyn, to eat a little (especially sweets) between meals...
...Ambassador John Sherman Cooper called three times on Nehru, trying to quiet his anger, and Dulles issued a further explanation (which did not satisfy the Indians) that the U.S. remains "neutral" in the dispute over the colony which has been Portuguese since 1510. It was all too easy for Khrushchev to repeat "Look who your friends are," to endorse India's claim on Goa and denounce the U.S. as a colonialist power...
...losers continued to drive in the second half, and tied the score at 36-all after 1:53 on Phil Haughey's free throw. The visitors' Pete Stanley tapped in a rebound, but Haughey evened it again with two foul shots. Hastings sank two from the line but Sam Sherman of the winners tied it once more with a push shot...
Hastings led the Crimson with 25 points, and Bob Barnett, Hurley and Ike Canty had 11 apiece. Haughey had 9, Bob Bowman 5 and Lou Lowonfels and Dick Woolston added 2 each. Fasciano and Muench had 17, while Sherman scored 16 for the winners...