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...smoky upper reaches of the grandstands, known as the "hayloft." The occupants of this low-cost Olympus exercise dictatorial power over the groundlings, demanding and usually getting kegs of free beer from the celebrities they spot in ringside seats below them. If no beer is forthcoming, the haylofters boo their target unmercifully, indulging in a "cult of disrespectfulness" that is half the fun of the Six Days. When West German Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel appeared one night, he was roundly booed. But when he donned a crash helmet and bravely mounted a racing bike, the crowd went wild...
...twist on the twist involving free-style arm motions. Most teen-agers still do the swim and almost everything else to the music of the Beatles, but the three young Go-Go's make a good pitch for swimming to their slow-rolling nautical numbers like Peek-A-Boo Swimsuit and They Call Him Chicken...
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...Callas enjoyed a tremendous success in Paris as Norma [June 26]; the boos came from the anti-Callas faction. They may boo her, but they really pay her the highest compliment by paying "Callas prices" at the box office. They may hate her, but they just can't stay away...
...ways that South Africa's hapless blacks and coloreds have to express their dismay at apartheid is to boo vigorously the all-white home teams at international sports contests. In 1955 the unpatriotic favoritism of nonwhites at a rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...