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...back-to-back wins last weekend. Earlier, the Lions were served up as a tidbit to a number one ranked Indiana Hoosiers squad over Christmas weekend, losing 106-63 in a game in which they were given as much of a shot as a flickering candle in a Topeka twister...
...What is the President Ford tongue twister? Answer: Hello...
...will be hidden under a bushel," Ford assured his fellow Congressmen. "Every Republican will have a voice in decision making and a chance to make a name for himself." Ford gave credit where it was due, took less than his share and made friends in both parties. No arm twister, he was a patter and a hugger. "It's the damndest thing," mused Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Joe D. Waggonner Jr. "Jerry just puts an arm around a colleague or looks him in the eye, says, 'I don't need your vote,' and gets it." Adds Edward F. Derwinski...
...into Ruby's background. The play is a sort of hallucinatory documentary. It starts, unpromisingly, as a tourists' excursion through a Disneyland museum of the American dream, then settles into Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. Ruby, in his sharkskin suit, hawks strippers and gimmicks like a twister's exercise board. He is pathologically eager to please and to succeed, to manifest the American dream...
...THINK any red-blooded American could honestly say whether The Wizard of Oz is a good movie, since everyone sees it before he thinks of things in those terms. My primary impression of it as a child was fear--I was scared by Miss Gulch, scared by the twister, scared by the monkeys. I was probably scared by the munchkins too, since all I remember is being afraid. None of the happy moments of the film made any impression on me. And later this put me on the track of deeper meanings. If I knew anything about psychology, or folklore...