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...self-proclaimed "novel of the new American revolution" is Arkansas Representative Timotheus Denney, who is cast as the legislative wizard and bourbon-breathing Grand Dragon of all the sheetless Klansmen on Capitol Hill. This Ozark Ozymandias wants the Government to build him a $2 billion Denney Dam back in Yell County, Ark. But he faces an ironic choice: the dam will be voted out of committee only if Denney pledges support for a civil rights bill. Never, he yells, and threatens to touch off race war if the dam doesn't go through. But before Denney can rouse...
...CORE people continued to yell, and Secret Servicemen stirred uneasily. Johnson cut the ribbon, then stood straight and unsmiling while a Marine band played the national anthem. Secret Service Chief James Rowley removed his hat-but he held it with his left hand and kept his right ominously in his coat pocket. Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman was so unnerved by the disturbance that he forgot to take off his hat until the final few bars of the anthem were played. "This is certainly disgraceful," muttered Harriman. Later, when the President was asked what his reaction...
...cool domains of latter-day bop. In answer to requests, Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk would mutter, "All reet," greatly confusing Chaliapin. When he finally caught on, Chaliapin replied in Russian-accented retaliation: "All root." During four sittings Thelonious had a disconcerting habit of dropping off to sleep. Chaliapin would yell at him, "Monk, Monk, wake up!", then prod him out of his armchair and walk him around the studio. Says he: "Monk's very strange-in the best sense of the word." As for Thelonious, it took him about a week to learn to pronounce the painter...
...students him on, Henry gobbled up everything in sight but the tablecloth. With five minutes to go, the cheering section began to yell, "Comes as, John, you're making the stretch run now!" At this point Henry announced, "I've had the course," and gurgling noises omitted from his threat. Members of the Boston photographic corps hovered over him to get the picture of the day, but Henry made it to the mean's room is time...
After the scuffle, students emerging from the meeting jammed the lobby. A group began to yell at Nicolaus, "Kill him," Kill the Communist," and "He's a traitor," and then broke into the "Star-Spangled Banner...