Word: voodoos
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...country cultivable, but the Point Four program has failed here because it has substituted symbolic gestures for real aid. Unfortunately, a birth control program, although one of the most effective kinds of aid must, temporarily, be left to the Roman Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, and the Voodoo leaders of the interior...
There are also instructions on how to make a Voodoo Dolly Pincushion and what to do with I-is-for-Ink: "Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? D R -." There is a friendly hint about brushing the teeth: "If you do not brush your teeth, they will get dull and yellow. If you brush them, they will be nice and white and bright. Maybe a wild black panther will crawl in your window some dark night and look around for someone...
...Voodoo & Vulnerability. Mauldin packs a wallop that can be absorbed in seconds-and seconds, as he well knows, are all his work will get from the Post-Dispatch's readers (circ. 406,947) and the other 10 million in his 99-newspaper syndication. He understands even better-as many of his colleagues seem to forget -that editorial cartooning is essentially an aggressive art, aimed at the belly rather than the brain. Mauldin never defends; he attacks. The difference between an editorial cartoon and the editorial across the page, he says, is "the difference between a sergeant's whistle...
...House and the chairman of the powerful Rules Committee to an easily digestible cartoon. "No hard feelin's, Mr. Sam," says Chairman Howard Smith into the telephone after losing the power struggle to Speaker Sam Rayburn. Then Smith continues solicitously, as he sticks pins into a voodoo doll of Rayburn: "By the way, how are you feelin...
...rendezvous with waiting tankers. By the time the racers had braked to a stop in Brooklyn, drag parachutes billowing behind, three had cracked the old transcontinental record of 3 hr. 5 min. 39.2 sec. set in 1957 by Air Force Lieut. Gustav Klatt in an RF-101 Voodoo jet. The winning time, posted by Lieut. Richard Gordon Jr. and Lieut, (j.g.) Bobbie Young: 2 hr. 47 min. In New Jersey and New York, angry householders complained that the sonic booms from the swift-flying planes had also cracked assorted crockery and windows...