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...Oberleutnant stares grimly at his wristwatch as machine-gun bullets twang overhead. A flare picks out highlights on the jackboots and bayonets of his -waiting assault troops. Then, with a wave of his Luger: "Vorwärts!" But the troops have been staring at their watches, too. Instead of charging, they march off-out of step-toward the canteen. "It's coffee-break time," says the squad leader to the Oberleutnant. "Take it up with the shop steward...
...going to do? Sit around the house and bite my nails?" Not content to be just the highest-paid ($1,500 a week) sideman in music, he left Harry James's band in March "to put music back in its perspective, to offer something else than just twang, twang, twang." His new band, he says, has nothing to do with nostalgia. "Who the hell wants to hear the Glenn Miller sound? I dress '67, I drive '67, I think '67, I play '67. There is no such thing as the good old days...
...Airplane, as everyone in San Francisco ought to know by now, is not a flying machine but five men and a girl, powered only by the usual assortment of guitars and drums. They are billed as producers of a jet-age sound which, in spite of its high-voltage twang, can be disarmingly gentle and folk-flavored. Their best ballad, Come Up the Years, celebrates the sorrows of a too-old lover so sweetly as to suggest that he may be about 15 and his girl...
...have been included in either book, but sincere testimony to the miracles of the space age abound like grace. Samples: Intrepid small boys with .22 rifles near Rio Vista, Calif., last December got in some shots at a UFO hanging about the town water tower and extorted a satisfactory twang and an angry red glow from the visitor. Some Italian farmers pelted a UFO near Milan in October 1954 with rotten oranges, scoring, they claimed, some hits. They did not hit any of the little men, who were about 4 ft. high, wore light-colored pants, helmets and other equipment...
From his tweeds to his twang, Saltonstall is every inch a Brahmin-the last of the Massachusetts species in high elective office. Tall and erect, with the kind of homeliness that radiates integrity, Salty is famed among Senate colleagues for the Bostonian virtues of unfailing courtesy and caution. On one occasion, when asked by a reporter for his opinion on a foreign policy issue, the taciturn Senator replied: "No comment, and that's off the record...