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...Maybe we were snake-bitten at Penn," Poe said yesterday, "just full of poison, with the calls against us, but the rest of the season has just been an unexplainable series of almost-scores, incomplete passes, and just-misses. And that can happen to any team...
...this, his first big Hollywood role. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing here," he moans. "I have to take a tranquilizer even to feed my goldfish, and in this movie I've got to act with a lion, two monkeys and a snake. I'm firing my agent just as soon as I can get to a post office...
...monkey traveling in the jungle of cities from Paris to New York. The combo behind him breaks into a jazz beat, and he punctuates the air around him with staccato jabs of his hand mike. Nervously he whips the mike cord, and it coils and undulates like a black snake. At the end of it, his slight body stiffens in a convulsive spasm, a lightning rod under a direct hit. The mouth opens in grief, and he sings of losers and a losing game-love...
...newspaper offered $100 prizes for water-saving ideas and got some good ones (first winner: don't rinse empty milk bottles). City hall was bombarded with suggestions, among them a proposal to ban shaving and a surefire formula for rain: hang a freshly killed snake in a tree. Mayor Robert Wagner became enthusiastic over the possibilities of rainmaking after reading a newspaper story about a new electronic device that was said to have dumped torrents on parched Escondido, Calif. As it turned out, Escondido had received less rainfall than New York−half an inch since July 1. Undaunted...
...where Segregationist Boss Leander Perez has kept civil rights workers at a safe distance by converting a swampy, snake-infested onetime Spanish fort on the Mississippi River into a concentration camp in anticipation of "racial demonstrators." Said Katzenbach: "If you are going to send examiners into Louisiana and don't send them into Plaquemines, then they can say you haven't any guts." Same as Whites. In the nine gut counties he finally selected-four in Alabama, three in Louisiana, two in Mississippi-Katzenbach said, the percentage of eligible white citizens on the voting rolls ranges from...