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...flutter of fingers, a kiss-kiss of lips, a toss-up of locks-it was Tiny Tim in Yorkshire at the start of a five-week tour of England. But Tim's manner seemed so inappropriate to his matter (The Land of Hope and Glory, the superpatriotic hymn to Britain from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance) that onetime Coldstream Guardsman Jim Smith, 34, felt impelled to wrest the mike away. "This man was running down England," barked the unrepentant Guardsman. "I'm quitting," trilled the unrepentant singer, who thereupon flounced back to the States...
...Toss-Up. If some, like Thurmond Clayton, were outraged, many others were radicalized by the police action. Harry Ansleigh, 23, was one of the moderates who protected the bank from student radicals. Last week he was participating in the peaceful sit-in protest of the curfew when the police gassed him and beat him with clubs, opening a head wound that took five stitches to close. "I've always maintained that there were a few pigs and lots of cops," he said. "Now it seems there are more pigs than I thought. When the gentlest...
...work at the bank and my husband works in the ROTC office on campus," she said. "We want to move out of Isla Vista. The problem is, the only transfer my husband could get would be to go back to Viet Nam. Right now it looks like a toss...
Right-hander Phil Collins will start for the Crimson in the first game, while left-hander J. C. Nickens will go in the second game. The outcome is a toss...
...downturn, but the pain would be mild compared with what happened in the four full-sized recessions of the past two decades. Industrial production dropped as much as 15%, corporate profits fell 21% to 30%, and unemployment rates hit peaks of 6% to 8%. Heller says it is a toss-up whether the situation the board majority foresees should be called a recession; he suggests "mini-micro recession." The important thing, adds Pechman, is that 'the U.S. is experiencing "a policy-induced pause" because of severe monetary and fiscal restraint on a naturally ebullient economy, rather than the more...