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...Probus (PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS) Club, among dozens of other such groups. Cosmopolitan Washington has its Recorder Society, Foggy Bottom Chamber Music Group, and Potomac English Handbell Ringers. And Manhattan, naturally, has an ad-agency outfit called The Many Splendored Stompers, whose theme song is Man in a Gray Flannel Stomp...
...enough to make old Peter Stuyvesant stomp around on his stump. From Brazil, 23 Jews had arrived in Governor Stuyvesant's New Amsterdam in 1654. Peter sent off a letter to his superiors in the Dutch West India Company seeking permission (unsuccessfully) to evict the members of the "very repugnant, deceitful race, hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ, lest they infect and trouble this new colony with their customary usury and deceitful trading...
...would be a mistake to assume, however, that to get our way in the Cold War we need only stomp around the world brandishing our rockets and calling on the Russians to back off or be destroyed. For the present crisis was not a triumph of American brinksmanship so much as a failure of past policy...
...Angeles Lakers toppled the Detroit Pistons in the Western Division, even the pros seemed a little tired of it all. Contact on the court came often and carelessly; the fouls were no longer subtle. In one game, the Celtics' defensive specialist Bill Russell seemed determined to stomp the opposition down (see cut). Pile-ups under the basket were alive with flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool to threaten the Warriors' giant Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun...
...Fonda's children were children, they lived on Tigertail Road in Brentwood, Calif., on something that young Jane Fonda now describes as a farm. This is like claiming to have been brought up on a ranch on Park Avenue. But as Jane remembers it. Pa Fonda used to stomp around the property in sideburns or a beard, achinnin' with the other farmers-John Ford, Jimmy Stewart. John Wayne and so on. All the while, the kids was ferever play-actin', pretendin' they was Buck the Buffalo Herder, or Sheena. Queen of the Jungle. "Sometimes...