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Of all the revolutionary comedians of the era such as Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Shelley Berman, Nachman wrote, “Newhart was the most Everyman of them all — nonethnic, nonabrasive, non-angst-ridden, non-you-name-it. ... His mild-mannered, quizzical nature worked like a sedative for the increasing craziness of the time.”

He and Mort Garson used the Moog to help create a moderate-sized hit album by the Zodiac, “Cosmic Sounds.”

In April, the Germans attempted to capture a strategic height named Le Mort Homme, Dead Man’s Hill, but were pushed back before they could reach the summit.

A French officer, Augustin Cochin, spent six days in the Mort Homme trenches, “the last two days soaked in icy mud, under terrible bombardment, without any shelter other than the narrowness of the trench....I arrived there with 175 men, I returned with 34, several half mad...not replying any more when I spoke to them.”

In 2015, an email from the party's then chairman of its national disciplinary committee, Simon Mort, said that pursuing "any kind of inquiry" into an alleged "Islamist plot" was the "road to nowhere".