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...wild-eyed." The state superintendent of education announced that South Carolina "will continue to feel free" to let teachers hold devotional exercises in their classrooms. That raised a fascinating point: last week's decision presented an opportunity for Southern states, angered at decisions in racial cases, to thumb their noses at the Supreme Court with little fear of effective reprisal. After all, no federal authority is likely to call out the troops to take the Bible out of a teacher's hand or order children to unclasp theirs...
...eyes. At 22, he looks 14, and his accent belongs to a jive Nebraskan, or maybe a Brooklyn hillbilly. He is a dime-store philosopher, a drugstore cowboy, a men's room conversationalist. And when he describes his young life, he declares himself dumfounded at the spectacle. "With my thumb out, my eyes asleep, my hat turned up an' my head turned on," says Bob Dylan, "I's driftin' and learnin' new lessons...
...extremely happy with it," says Mrs. Cesarini, a practical nurse. "Before, I couldn't grasp objects with my left hand-my fingers seemed frozen. Now I can touch every fingertip on that hand with my thumb...
Holes in One. Miniature golf, idiot's delight of the Depression years, is also coming back strong. In the 19303, Tom Thumb courses sprouted in everybody's vacant lot, set up for about $30 in cash, some scrap lumber and a can of paint. Today they tend to be elaborate and mass-produced, leased on a franchise basis...
...world's coldly competitive steel business is "dumping"-the calculated practice of selling for less abroad than at home. While raising their own domestic prices last week, U.S. steelmakers grumbled bitterly that cut-price European and Japanese competitors are dumping steel on the U.S. market. In a thumb-in-the-eye brawl that is becoming global, the Europeans also accuse the Japanese of dumping steel in the Common Market. The Europeans have quietly made a cartel-like agreement to set prices of exports and carve up world markets-but so have the Japanese. Last week West Germany...