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...Pioneer Bob LeTourneau, who agreed not to build earthmovers for a five-year period ending next May. Bob LeTourneau is itching to get back into the field, hints that he will produce some machines to open the industry's eyes: "As far as earth-moving machines go, they ain't seen nothing...
...conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there ain't no God." On love: "Whether you're a schoolteacher, advertising man or missionary, a great part of love basically will still be sex. Naturally, when I say love I'm not talking about those sudden urges or something that men are subject to." On drinking: "We must not spit...
...handlers laid out fresh clothes as Fats mopped his face and clambered out of his tan silk suit (he owns 51 such rigs). The band got a quick dressing-down: "You guys ain't playin' wuth a cotton picker's wages-a real crummy beat." Then, turning to reporters, Fats philosophized about his wearying one-night stands: "Gold all the way, but man, they get old." Fats's gold standards are high: he estimates that he will make $600,000 to $700,000 this year, spend $60,000 on a house in New Orleans...
Into Washington came a cry for succor from a kingdom even more distant than Jordan. The supplicant: the royal government of Laos, whose small territory is bordered on the north by Red China, on the northeast by Communist North Viet Nam. Laos' plea: the U.S., along with Brit ain and France, should reaffirm its support of the Laos government against Communist pressure-particularly from the two Communist-controlled provinces in northeastern Laos. Reason: under the terms of the 1954 Geneva agreement which ended the Indo-China War, the two Red provinces were to have been reintegrated with the mother...
...vaudeville, Gene began recording, and chiefly between 1924 and 1930 sold 86 million records. Barrel-shaped but still velvet-throated at 56, Tenor Austin, singing the sound track, brought back the nostalgic old daze as he crooned some of the songs he made famous: My Blue Heaven, Melancholy Baby, Ain't She Sweet, How Come You Do Me Like You Do, Yes Sir, That's My Baby...