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...innocent bystander struck the first blow with a black umbrella and the police moved in with the broom. Rodent, dazed, was then despatched by a single shot and his records removed from University Hall to the Health Center...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: All Yell, 'Lookat Dat'; Eight Cops Kill Rat | 3/28/1962 | See Source »

...Enter the Minister and his wife, right. He is carrying a large suitcase, an umbrella, and a canteen. She carries another, smaller suitcase covered with travel stickers, and has a huge purse slung from her shoulder. He wears a black, vested suit with Episcopalian collar; She is plainly and decently dressed, past middle age and, like her husband, obviously of tough pioneer stock. They both seem overheated and fatigued...

Author: By Gerald Burns, | Title: THE PROPHET | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...beige pin. TER. Now, there, there, don't yourself...the ground is I can feel it. (Standing.) me in mind of one of Pappy's "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in and thou shalt smite the rock," (he strikes the stage with his umbrella) "and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink...

Author: By Gerald Burns, | Title: THE PROPHET | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...Umbrella. Under the umbrella of antiCommunism, many of the ultra-rightists pursue their own special goals and grind their own axes, ranging from respectable conservative politics and economics through segregation, anti-fluoridation, isolationism, higher tariffs and income tax repeal. Federal income tax, says Dr. Carleton Campbell, a veteran ultra who organized the recent Greenwich meeting, is "one of the steps on the Communist chart to take over a country" by taxing the middle class into impotence. "Our goal is to prevent world government," says Merwin K. Hart, president of the National Economic Council. "And we don't like fluoridation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: The Ultras | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Then he pumps up a tent, an umbrella, and a chair. He walks over to his car, pulls out a plug and psssssssss, the car deflates and shrinks until it is a speck on the sand. He pumps up a surfboard. He pumps up fish. He pumps up a girl. He doesn't like her looks, so he tries again. The new broad is smooth, supple, lissome -but there is something wrong. Two quick final puffs and her bikini brassiere is properly filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Psssssssss | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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