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ALWAYS eager to join a battle and turn it into a crusade if he can, McGill has never let the battle-field slip away under his feet. In 1938, when he became executive editor of the Constitution, the Atlanta chapter of the KKK staged a protest parade around the Constitution building, denouncing him. Since then, particularly in times of racial tension, he has received a steady stream of obscene phone calls and occasional loads of garbage dumped on his front lawn...
Only a major slip by Kennedy would convince the leaders who control these states to switch to Humphrey. But even RFK admits that he might stumble badly...
...outsized, scooplike hands and a curious ability to flex his legs slightly forward at the knee-which allows him to kick anywhere from 6 in. to 12 in. deeper than his competitors. "Mark's whole body ls so flexible," says his father that the water just seems to slip past him. That flexibility also gives him an abnormally long stroke; in the butterfly he can swim the length of a 25-yd pool with only 13 strokes, while most swimmers require 15 or 16. "I'm slower but I'm faster," he explains. "I mean that...
...their rivalry for sexy Alison. Then comes the Reeve's account of the hot pillow goings-on in the Miller's family. The show's multiple bed hoppings are cleverly managed by representing the beds with vertically hung sheets and blankets, behind which the actors slip...
Hotchner, 48, is typical of a host of depilated dandies who are discovering that it can be fun to switch images by pasting on mustaches, sideboards* and beards. Sometimes, for the complete transformation, they slip on long-haired, hippie-style wigs as well. Manhattan's Hollywood Joe's Hair Piece Co., one of the nation's leading suppliers of fake facial foliage made from human hair, is now shipping out 2,800 beards, boards and brushes weekly, and orders from the Midwest run second only to those from New York...