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...baby moose was stuck in the mud at the edge of Watts Lake in Alberta; Marlin Perkins was nosing his shiny red canoe through the cattails and saw the problem. Thwuck, thwuck, thwuck - Perkins, in hip-high rubber waders slogged through the sludge, grabbed the mooselet around the rump and pulled it free. Next problem: How now to get Perkins out of the mud? Tooth-&-Claw. One rubber wading boot may still be mired on the shore of Watts Lake, testimony to the way that Marlin Perkins, 59, director of the St. Louis Zoo, gets into the act in each...
...Answers: "Because the mountain won't go over the rabbit." "So he can reach the ground to eat the grass." "So he can't stick it between the bars of his cage.") For each wrong reply, the guide gets to whack the hunter on the rump with a willow branch. Smart Westerners can always retaliate with a few Red riddles of their own. One that is currently bouncing around the satellite circuit asks: "What did Aleksei Adzhubei learn when his father-in-law lost his job?" Answer: "That he married for love...
...Antonio, where the liberals are stronger than any place else in Texas, Connally's supporters were greatly out-numbered at the county convention and so they walked out, held a rump convenion, and named their own delegates to the state convention. The Connally-dominated credentials committee at the State Convention seated the illegitimate delegation and Connally's control was complete. At county conventions where liberals prevailed, resolutions had been passed endorsing President Johnson and his program; where Connally prevailed, the President was endorsed but never his program...
...Antonio, where the liberals are stronger than any place else in Texas, Connally's supporters were greatly out-numbered at the county convention and so they walked out, held a rump convenion, and named their own delegates to the state convention. The Connally-dominated credentials committee at the State Convention seated the illegitimate delegation and Connally's control was complete. At county conventions where liberals prevailed, resolutions had been passed endorsing President Johnson and his program; where Connally prevailed, the President was endorsed but never his program...
Instead, Tàpies and others contributed to a rump show of modern Spanish work now on at Rimini, in Italy. And the master Picasso, just to prove that he cannot be brought into camp, specifically chose for the Rimini show a 1937 surrealist condemnation of Spanish fascism called Dreams and Lies of Franco...