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...Journey to the Center of the Earth. Prissy Professor James Mason, followed by Plucky Youth Pat Boone, Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude, spends a year exploring some of the most preposterous yet wonderfully funny poppycock Jules Verne ever published...
Inevitably, the sitdowns washed up some familiar flotsam: the duck-tailed, sideburned swaggerers, the rednecked hatemongers, the Ku Klux Klan. Stores in Durham, Greensboro and Rock Hill, S.C. were closed after getting anonymous telephoned bomb threats. Just as inevitably, the national pressure groups arrived on the scene and helped organize the sitdowns in other Southern cities. Five days after the Greensboro sitdown began, a representative of the Congress of Racial Equality turned up in Greensboro and Durham, announced that CORE was taking over, and advised the sitters to concentrate on just one chain-Woolworth...
...Duck Hunt. Ordinarily, such an industry-wide case would have dragged on interminably. Judge Savage would have none of it. Using a civil-suit procedure, he held pre-trial meetings to settle on the major points at issue. Defense attorneys, for example, disagreed on what percentage of the market their clients held. Judge Savage noted that a percentage point either way would make little difference. "We agreed on 65%," said one defense attorney, "and went on to the next item...
...that Rathbone reported the matter to Jersey's executive committee, and that an industrywide boost started soon after. The Government questioned Lion Oil Co. Vice President John E. Howell about a series of phone conversations with top oil-industry executives. Howell explained that the calls were about a duck hunt in Arkansas-not crude-oil prices. The Government also introduced a wire from Continental Oil Executive Vice President Charles A. Perlitz to Conoco President Leonard F. McCollum in which he wrote, after much talk about crude oil: "Have not heard from Proctor as yet." Mr. Proctor, indicated the Government...
...novelists could kill a country, England would be a dead duck. Her young men write well, but they seem to be engaged in a running competition to see which one of them can make life in the homeland seem the most disagreeable. Certainly England has seldom seemed more tired and futile than it does in The Center of the Green, a novel edged with style and talent but filled with characters who inhabit separate islands of despair...