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...Spitz, 24. Then he drank a small carton of milk-the way that Dean Martin used to toss off something harder -and launched into his stage debut at the Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, Calif. Backed by a fresh-faced chorus called the Mark Curb Congregation, Mark soft-shoe-shuffled and crooned through a couple of olden goldies, The Sidewalks of New York and A Bicycle Built for Two. Then he introduced his guests, National Hula Hoop Champion Lori Lynn Raye, 15, and Sugar-Rocker Craig Johnson, 15. Modest Mark admitted some identification problems in his new career...
...renovate or tear down. Also, the military goes on using portions of some of the bases for such purposes as storing nuclear materials. Hale Champion, former chairman of the Massachusetts Federal Base Conversion Commission, referring hyperbolically to radiation from the nuclear stockpiles, asks: "Who wants to build a shoe factory that will glow in the dark...
...kind of defense against the pressures of the peculiar institution. Historian Stanley Elkins' Slavery (1959) even suggested that "Sambo, the typical plantation slave ... docile but irresponsible, loyal but lazy, humble but chronically given to lying and stealing," resembled not so much a kind of survivor's soft-shoe sabotage of Massa as the form of demoralization and infantilism that set in among inmates of Nazi concentration camps...
...political crisis, a modest man became momentarily a heroic one. Now, eight months later, Cox has returned to his book-lined office in the International Legal Studies Building at the Law School, saying little about the scandal even in his now-frequent speeches and waiting modestly for the other shoe, the one his defiance set in motion, to drop on Richard Nixon...
...Khrushchev's memoirs [May 6]: it was a very enlightening experience to look inside a man whom I had always thought of as a shoe-stomping tyrant and find that he was a very intelligent, concerned and compassionate individual. It is no wonder he was ousted: he was too human...