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...Some of the more spirited cartoonists buck, kick and squirm," says a syndicate editor, and Charles Schulz bucks as much as any. He complained about his second strip when United Feature sketched in a black eye Patty gave Charlie. Recently, United objected to the Peanuts sequence in which Linus' blanket attacks the other Peanuts. "That's monster stuff," complained United Feature's President Laurence Rutman, who prevailed on Schulz to abandon eight strips. "It's not the real you." In retaliation, Schulz bought a baby blanket, drew a monster on it saying "Boo!" and sent...
Obviously no typical dropout, he went on to success and riches in show business. But he still feels mild pangs of guilt about his casual academic career, and the song is supposed to make dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...
...campus organization. In Moscow, Africans have been smoldering for years over thinly disguised racial discrimination. Except for a token number of Russian students, the dining rooms and dormitories of Lumumba U. (which Africans sardonically call "Apartheid U.") are segregated. Africans find it difficult to date a Russian girl. Students squirm at the stares they get in public and object to poor service they often receive in restaurants. Despite professions of brotherhood, many Russians still think Africans are half-civilized strangers who have just emerged from the jungle...
...Monsieur X" whose virtues as a candidate have recently been touted by the influential left-wing weekly L'Express. The description fitted Defferre so perfectly that few Frenchmen had any doubt whom L'Express had in mind. As the Monsieur X campaign boomed on, Gaullists began to squirm, and Defferre's original resistance to the presidential fever weakened...
Even a Yacht. Some of Defferre's fellow Socialists began to squirm as well. Uneasiest of all was Party Secretary Guy Mollet, who has long been jealous of Defferre's growing power in the party and his even wider appeal to the nation. When the governing board of the Socialist Party met last week at its Paris headquarters just off Place Pigalle, Mollet fought hard to stop the Socialists from naming anyone as a presidential candidate-at least at this moment. But of the 43 Socialists present at last week's meeting, fully 35 backed Defferre...