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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Little Black Sambo's tigers whirling around the palm tree, the Democratic candidates chased each other madly through the primaries last week, generated most of the political motion, and produced most of the headlines. In the face of such furious activity, Republicans felt a certain uneasiness. In Vice President Richard Nixon, they knew, they had a strong and battle-tried candidate, but was the G.O.P. losing political advantages, marking time? The latest Gallup poll showed Nixon trailing Democratic Front Runner John Kennedy 47% to 53%-putting Kennedy a poll ahead of Nixon for the first time since Nixon...
...Thurber Carnival. In the country of Humorist James Thurber, there is a nut behind every tree: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver...
...clever student, and Phineas laughs his way to a C average, but Gene takes no comfort from his crumb of superiority. His friend's perfection galls him. Worse, Phineas has begun to prod Gene to follow him in nonsensical feats of daring. The athlete fearlessly climbs a tall tree by a riverbank, walks the length of a limb, and leaps far out into safe, deep water. Gene queasily repeats the stunt, and bitterly resents the compulsion that makes him do it. Soon Gene comes to suspect that everything Phineas does is calculated to humiliate...
Innocence. One night Phineas has a new idea-a double leap. The boys climb the tree. Phineas balances jauntily on the limb, and Gene grimly clutches the trunk.. Abruptly the athlete falls. In the minutes that follow, as Phineas is carried to the infirmary with a shattered leg, ¶Gene tries to shut away a terrifying fact: in an instant of hatred, he had jounced the limb his friend was standing...
...summer ends, and the war comes nearer. The crippled Phineas returns to Devon School, announces gaily that the war is a fraud, and begins training the tormented Gene for the 1944 Olympics. But what happened in the tree obtrudes ike the maimed athlete's dragging leg. In a weird kangaroo court, even Phineas is made to accept the truth. He staggers out of the room, breaks his leg in another fall, and this time dies. "My war ended before I ever put on a uniform," Gene reflects. "I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed...