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That soul, on the evidence of the early short cartoons-made before Disney or anyone else devoted any time to consumer analysis-was anarchic, occasionally cruel, broad and barnyard in its humor. If it did not comfort the afflicted (except by providing them with virtuoso entertainment), it certainly afflicted the comfortable. It was a direct spiritual descendant of the great silent screen comedies...
...foreseeable future. "The Government is going to get out of the agriculture business," exults one economist who frequently advises Nixon. "They are sneaking out and they cannot fully admit it, but they are trying to do it." The effort is bound to touch off an acrimonious debate from the barnyard to the halls of Congress over just how the U.S. should change its farm policy, or whether it should be changed...
Died. Paul H. Terry, 84, dean of animated film makers; in Manhattan. Walt Disney was still in grade school in 1915 when Terry began to create a barnyard full of animated characters for the silent screen. Operating from a converted Knights of Columbus hall in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., he cranked out hundreds of "Terrytoons"-seven-minute mini-adventures starring such cartoon immortals as Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle...
...about time we cleaned up the odiferous mess in our own barnyard and put up the broken-down fences...
Most underground newspapers are a garish amalgam of barnyard prose, bare bosoms, revolutionary tracts and sex-oriented want ads. Still, the 50 or so underground publications, including the Los Angeles Free Press, New York's East Village Other and Atlanta's Great Speckled Bird, cover a market beyond the reach of straight media. Some record companies, book publishers and clothing manufacturers have found it worthwhile to promote their wares in the underground press, often baiting their copy with radical themes...