Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin, along with a swarm of song publishers, claimed infringement of their copyrights. Last week in Manhattan, the U.S. Court of Appeals decided that no actionable harm had been done. Said the opinion written by Judge Irving R. Kaufman: "Through depression and boom, war and peace, Tin Pan Alley has light-heartedly insisted that 'the whole world laughs' with a laugher, and that 'the best things in life are free.' " The suit against Mad is "an apparent departure from these delightful sentiments." Parodists, said Judge Kaufman, must be permitted to borrow from the original, or else...
...peddles toothpaste and Cokes for the druggist, he meets a mad Jewish orderly named Sammy. Reason or reasons do not seem to exist for Sammy. His role is to drown the rationalist Angelo in humanity, and he rants outrageous anecdotes proving that the perversity and saintliness of the human swarm are inextricably intertwined. In the hospital Sammy is seen acting out his mad parables, caring lovingly for the dying, and hooking complaining patients on the morphine he steals and peddles...
...into a simple granite plaque, which carries the man's name and the dates of his first and last days on earth. The bare cedars quake on wintry, windy Texas days, and the grass is brown and forlorn. Here and there a leaf flutters and a sudden swarm of starlings lights in a tree for a moment, only to take off like a cloud in the bleak sky. And on the grave are a pot of withered chrysanthemums, some carnations and nine sprays of pretty pink roses. The roses are plastic...
Papa, Benedizione. Paul's tolerance was repeatedly put to the test, and everywhere it was difficult to tell which was more important, the Pope or the pop of a flashbulb. A swarm of 150 reporters and photographers crashed one of the Pope's private meetings with Patriarch Athenagoras I, scuffled boisterously for position while the two religious leaders stared in surprise. Outside the walled Garden of Gethsemane, police had to pull prying newsmen from ladders. One freelance U.S. photographer managed to sneak an automatic, motor-driven camera into the tomb in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy...
...Country Swarm. To U.S. visitors, Bombay seems the most American city in India. In a nation that is currently stagnant, both economically and socially, Bombay is noisily on the move, ablaze with neon signs and with a skyline of high-rise office and apartment buildings. Bustling Bombay pays fully a third of all India's income taxes. Its wide harbor handles some 15 million tons of cargo annually, and its burgeoning industry ranges from the traditional textile mills that owe their beginning to the U.S. Civil War, when the Union blockade cut off cotton from the South, to brand...