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...with Memphis Boss Edward H. Crump, who labeled Kefauver a "pet coon." Kefauver laboriously replied, "I may be a pet coon, but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." At his next campaign appearance he clapped a coonskin cap on his head, pointed to the tail and said, "A coon may have rings around his tail, but this coon will never have a ring through his nose." He beat the Crump machine, and more important than the ridiculous cap was Kefauver's decision to shake at least 500 hands a day during that campaign...
...What Book? The painstakingly hand-crafted vehicle that carried Breedlove to his record was a bizarre contraption with three wheels and a tail fin jutting 10 ft. high. The thing was 35 ft. long and 11 ft. wide, weighed three tons. Its single front wheel could be steered only half a degree in either direction. To keep the car from taking off at high speeds, the cigar-shaped body was designed so that the terrific air pressure on the nose would hold it down ("negative lift," engineers call it). A small fin under the nose helped carve a path through...
...billed white marlin is a mettlesome substitute. Pound for pound, it is one of the sea's most exciting and annoying game fish. Wily and wary, the white marlin will trail a trolling boat for miles, inspecting the bait, even tapping it tentatively with its bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto...
Women clutched children to their skirts and men edged for cover, for all knew that Scandalous John was the meatiest waddie ever to ride out of the West-the 1960s West of tail-finned Cadillacs and fat farm subsidies, that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...
...almost two months, FBI agents have kept a round-the-clock watch on Chicago Rackets Boss Momo Salvatore ("Sam") Giancana, 53, heir to what remains of Al Capone's empire. And the tail gives Sam a pain. He sneaks out of his house at odd hours, lies on the floor of a relative's car, changes cars on a crowded street, once even pulled casually into a car wash, then zoomed out the rear while attendants cheered, "Go, man, go." But the feds are always there, even on the golf course and on his dates with Steady Girl...