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...bowl. The basket has two wire rings, one higher than the other. Hanging from one of the rings is a little ball made from the light core of a corn cob, with a wire hook in it. The idea is to gently support the ball with your breath, and raise it from one ring to the other and back again without it falling...
Wily Lyndon Johnson once ordered an aide to send a handsome young staff member out to appeal to a lady legislator for her support. "Let nature take its course," the President suggested. Johnson used all of his persuasive powers and sometimes threatened economic retaliation and the hot breath of the Lord on his detractors, "but he never suggested in any way that the law should be broken," says his former aide, Joe Califano. "In fact, no matter what we did, Johnson wanted a legal opinion to be sure it was O.K. with...
...first they looked at us, looked away and then acted like we had knocked the breath out of them." The speaker was George Wallace Jr., 22, a history major at Montgomery's Huntingdon College. With Evelyn Bradford, 18, a black student, he undertook a project for their social problems course. Posing as an engaged couple, they went apartment hunting in Montgomery. George reported to the class that three out of four landlords slammed the door in the couple's faces. Then he added: "I thought attitudes would be worse, but times are changing." Asked about...
...first year in the league it was an existential crisis when the big guy plunged into the line because he was always getting knocked unconscious. A runaway truck with an eggshell bumper. Five times he woke up on the sidelines while an awful lot of people held their breath...
...breath-stopping ride. Among the passengers are George, an absent-minded professor of moral philosophy absorbed in his upcoming lecture billed "Man-Good, Bad or Indifferent?"; his ex-showgirl-songstress wife Dotty; and her psychiatrist lover, Sir Archibald Jumper, who is the vice chancellor and pragmatic villain of the college where George teaches. More bizarre companions include George's secretary, who likes to striptease while swinging by her teeth from a chandelier; a troupe of yellow-clad acrobats ("a mixture of the more philosophical members of the university gymnastics team and the more gymnastic members of the philosophy school...