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...West Germany's noisy National Democrats, whose election successes in the late 1960s triggered fears of a Nazi revival, in recent months have adopted a new salute. It is an upraised hand with two fingers and thumb spread to form a W, standing for Widerstand (resistance). As last week's state elections in Schleswig-Holstein indicated, what the National Democrats are trying to resist is total obliteration. Though they polled 5.8% of the vote in the north German state in the 1967 elections, their latest effort attracted only an insignificant 1.3%. That is well below the 5% required...
...brain cells. They do not, however, explain what man would do with this additional gray matter; there is good reason to believe that man does not use all that he presently possesses. A few others note that the efficiency of man's hands could be increased by an extra thumb and his peripheral vision enhanced by protruding eyes?improvements that seem unnecessary in the light of man's expanding technology...
...with early Grandma Moses. In his short Renoir stage, he managed to get the soft wispy effect in his tree leaves by dabbing on latex paint with an ordinary shaving brush. When he was under the Turner influence, he found he could create raging waves by running a dry thumb across Sherwin-Williams Aqua...
...Crimson had to fly home with nothing more than a fourth. For 13 years Joe Cavanagh and Dan DeMichele had been linemates. At Syracuse they were within reach of a great climax. Then it all ends, all 13 years of it, when DeMichele gets a quick thumb from the referee at 12:14 of the first period after fighting with Denver's Brian Morenz. Think of DeMichele skating off the for the last time as the fans at the Onondaga County War Memorial cheered. Erich Segal should have been there...
...feet. From the 2nd album, Strictly Personal, they played "Gimme dat Harp Boy." similar to but better than Spoonful and with Beefheart's excellent blues harp. From the third album, Trout Mask Replica (with a catfish on the cover), produced by Zappa (after Bob Krasnow and Blue Thumb records overproduced and cheated Beefheart) famous for Doug Moon's delta blues pickin' and Beefheart's singin' on "China Pig," they played "Big Joan Sets Up," a new version, "My Human Get's Me Blues" ("I saw you baby dancing in yer x-ray gingham dress. I knew you were under duress...