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...passed an azimuth heading of 270°. This area, almost completely opposite in direction from Russia, showed up on maps as the desolate valley of the River Jordan in Palestine. At length, when the scanner was again approaching this heading, the puzzled controllers pushed the computer's "speak" button. Reels whirled, relays clicked, and the message came pounding out: NO, NEGATIVE, THERE IS NO BOMB IN GILEAD...
...guide young actresses from obscurity to nudity, Vadim usually displays them backside up amidst a pile of sheets. In Circle, with five lissome beauties at his disposal (Fonda, Catherine Spaak, Anna Karina, Francine Bergé, Marie Dubois), he simply varies the routine with a good deal of explicit groping, button tugging and lifting of skirts...
Thousands of routine jobs [the booklet continued] which formerly could be handled by unschooled help have now been swallowed up by computers and push button machines. The better jobs remaining, which pay more money and offer more possibilities for promotion call for the better type of applicant. With more knowledge and more abilities. Employers have come to regard the high school graduate as the better type of applicant they are looking...
Selma Sheriff Jim Clark, a big man with balding head and a button reading the antithesis of Lackey. He rules his office an air of pomposity, as his brood of scream and deputy sheriffs hover reverently about radio monitor crackled with the "There's a bunch of 'em with signs head west on Jeff Davis Avenue, toward the houses." Clark flicks a switch on the and drawls, "Find out what they're doin a call me back...
...women and children, including King, who dramatized the situation by refusing to make bond for four days. Still the Negroes came, singing "We shall overcome." In reply, Sheriff Clark pinned a button on his shirt reading "Never!" The city's mood grew ever uglier. Business in town fell off by 50% . From Governor Wallace there came no pleas for peace; he merely ordered new platoons of state cops to Selma and environs...