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Yellow Men. Much of their comedy is sharply contemporary, and carries a sting. A reference to "the 13 Frenchmen who actually fought in the last war" is followed by a summation of Lyndon Johnson in his Viet Nam visit: "Shortly after he arrived, he left." An African head of state is asked by an English interviewer about his country's firm resistance to Red Chinese infiltration. "If God had meant there to be yellow men," the chief explains, "he would have made them like you and me." Hendra and Ullett, both 25, arrived at their joint lunacy three years...
...sooner had the World Series cheering faded than the Baltimore Orioles' Frank Robinson, 31, set off to make some noises of his own. In Manhattan with his wife Barbara to pick up the Corvette Sting Ray that Sport magazine gave him for being the Series' standout, Frank began exercising his vocal cords for the winter's after-dinner speaking circuit, which will keep him busy describing how he won batting's Triple Crown and then went on to wreck the Los Angeles Dodgers with two more homers in the Series. Frank, who stands to collect about...
...Bing Sting. The ease with which Bing pulls off this kind of frosty switch-about has left some people with a case of the shivers. One detractor described him as having "the look of a man constantly inhaling bad odors which only he can detect." When a tenor called in sick one day, Bing smelled the odor of laziness. Immediately he dispatched an ambulance and two doctors to the tenor's door. "He sang that night," recalls Bing with a wry smile, "and very well too." Some who have felt the Bing sting claim that he has a lofty...
...from Helen Suzman, the pert, doughty Johannesburg housewife who is the Progressive Party's only member in Parliament. Apartheid is still attacked in the English-language press, which has somehow managed to maintain a tradition of obstinate opposition to the racist pattern, but the attacks are losing their sting. Their readers, impressed by Verwoerd's successful pacification of the country since the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, no longer want to read about the injustices of his methods...
...just stayed that way." They went paddle-boating, with a Secret Service agent paddling in their wake. They had picnics along the Potomac, flew up to New York to see the World's Fair and a Broadway show. They zipped around Washington in Luci's green Sting Ray convertible for a while, but this nettled Pat's pride; he borrowed his father's 1963 Plymouth until he bought his own car. Yet it was several weeks before Washington gossips realized that Students Jack Olsen and Paul Betz, Luci's previous best beaux, had a successor...