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...inopportune for the mayor "to spend an hour trying to knock down the interest rate." The mayor is also urged to go to the scene of the crime and appeal for the safety of the hostages. "Why?" asks the wincing mayor, who points out that the crowd will probably boo him and the hijackers may shoot him. "They have no reason to shoot at you," answers the exasperated aide...
Feeling hemmed in by tradition, Partch added 31 tones to the twelve possible in the existing octave, then built entire orchestras out of cloud chambers, shell casings and auto exhaust pipes. With casually carpentered but poetically named instruments (the Boo, Whang Gun and Surrogate Kithara), Partch played compositions bearing such provocative titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room...
...generally found in the all-enticing Pin-up, in Playgirl's Discovery Man, in the photographic essay (February's entitled "Pillow Talk" featured a naked man and a half-dressed woman sporting on their spacious bed), in the personal horoscope (bordered by a male nude in various peek-a-boo poses) and in the advertising (breast stimulators and Frederick's of Hollywood "sex signals"). The fiction is also arousing if you are a Norah Lofts and Daphne DuMaurier...
Crusader coach George Blaney will floor a roof-scraping squad, with seven footer John "Big Boo" Budris 6 ft. 9 in. high-post man Marty Halsey, and 6 ft. 5 in., three-year veteran Malcolm Moulton...
Well, I proudly took all of my improved "We won't Boo...How About You" spirit and my newfound ever-increasing alarm down to Section 18 that night, but an incident at the end of the Crimson's 6-5 loss made me realize that just maybe Watson was invoking a double standard in his judgments...