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...votes might well go to Missouri's Symington-in fact, in their Midwest sales pitch Johnson forces are snuggling close to Symington people. Should Johnson find the nomination safely tucked in his inner coat pocket, he would swing into the full momentum of Phase 3, a hell-for-leather national campaign against Nixon (whom he personally admires)-the kind of campaign that makes the Eyes of Texans gleam...
Adventures at Night. At the age of eight. George had an obvious talent-and a curiously gruesome way of developing it. The son of a Liverpool leather dresser, young Stubbs would borrow human bones from a physician in the neighborhood and take them home to sketch. By the time he was 22, he was a lecturer on anatomy in York, and one account delicately hints that he was a body snatcher ("A hundred times he ran into such adventures at night as would subject anyone with less honorable motives to the greatest severity...
Roving police squads sped through the main streets of Cape Town itself, swinging sjamboks (leather whips) and grabbing "intimidators" who, according to Justice Minister François Erasmus, "stood at street corners giving certain signs" to keep Africans from going to work. Near Durban, African stay-at-homes stoned and beat other natives returning from work in town. Black police carrying Zulu-style shields and assagais (short spears), moved in, killing four and wounding...
...typewriters, fishing tackle, brass plumbing and floor tile, along with shrimp fishermen and horseradish-root growers, are asking the Government to check foreign competition. Such successful Japanese imports as transistor radios, umbrellas and chinaware are rising. So are imports of scissors and shears from Italy and West Germany, leather gloves from France and fish meal (for fertilizer) from Canada and Peru...
...Sheba set in Spain and the gaudy funeral that followed in Hollywood, where loud cheers greeted Yul Brynner, as if, by replacing Power in the film, "he was somehow making everything all right." When big bald Yul later arrived in Spain, Sanders cattily reports, he brought along twelve leather suits by Dior (six black, six white) and a retinue of seven stooges, one of whom "was permanently occupied in shaving Brynner's skull...