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...casual atmosphere of a Mexican studio would give a U. S. radio producer the jitters. Performers wander around, often exchange quips with the studio audience. No "Applause" and "Silence" signs interfere with the fun at these clambakes. Studio spectators tolerate no interference with their right to cheer or boo. Like all Mexicans, they delight in amateur programs. Favorite among gong shows is one sponsored by Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Ipana) which has been broadcast from XEW every Thursday night for five years. Presided over by a glum, bald, dead-pan wag named Julio Zetina, the Bristol-Myers program is riotously...
...temporary chairman called for or der, said Senator Ellender had a message from the President. Boo! "I will now ask the Senator to take the floor." Boo! The Senator reached the microphone, white and shaken. "Fellow Democrats," he be gan,"I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning. ..." Nothing was plain after that; through the surging roar of catcalls and the stamping of feet, whistles and bleacher wit, disjointed phrases echoed out of the loudspeakers: I thought democracy had returned to Louisiana...
...White House . . . consider the sugar legislation. ... I told him I was going to submit a resolution nominating to a third term. . . . You can boo, but he'll be your next President. . . . The President has asked me to deliver to you his sincere wishes for a successful convention [Interruption: Then why don't you sit down? . . . The President . . . ex pressed a sincere desire . . . visit Louisiana . " participate in the fishing and duck hunting. . . ." The shaken Senator could not go on, left the platform...
...Shut up. Sit down! Boo!" roared the assembled youth. Chairman Ennes had Mr. McArthur tossed out. Speaker McMichael went...
...Boo! Throw them out! Shut them up!" Members of the Congress, taking parliamentary procedure into their own hands, gave Mr. Tropea the bum's rush. Peter Tropea put up a fight, managed to break free and throw his book at an A. Y. C. officer before being ejected. The book was Cannon's Procedure in the House of Representatives...