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...That's the last time you're going to cheat anybody.' " The municipal judge was not amused; he fined Goines $160 and gave him ten days in jail for disorderly conduct, drawing a gun and firing it within city limits. Goines had obviously touched a responsive chord, however, among everyone who has ever been bamboozled by machinery. As Goines prepared an appeal, a group of Indianapolis lawyers volunteered to help with his case, and one sympathizer even offered to serve part of his jail term for him. But even from the grave, the machine enjoyed a kind...
Agnew's attacks last fall on the news media, the Eastern liberal establishment and war protesters touched a responsive chord in America. Agnew is "really a booming stock right now," says an aide. Tickets for upcoming Agnew appearances in Atlanta are selling out fast, and he is booked into Florida and Mississippi. A Florida dealer has sold 30,000 "God Bless Spiro Agnew" posters. In California one enterprising printer is marketing 50,000 "I Like Spiro" bumper stickers. Others cropping up on America's bumpers include "Sock It to 'Em, Spiro," "Spiro Of '76" and "Agnew...
...Your banal enthronement of confused, inarticulate, chauvinistic, anti-intellectual mediocrity has struck a responsive chord in my cynical heart. Bless you. LUCIAN R. SMITH Mankato, Minn...
...campaign for the presidency, Richard Nixon touched a responsive chord when he promised voters an all-out war to make the nation's streets safe again. He also found a convenient target in the incumbent Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, who Nixon implied was to blame for much of the soaring crime rate. "If we are to restore respect for law in this country," Candidate Nixon told cheering Republicans in 1968, "there is one place we are going to begin. We are going to have a new Attorney General...
...Mark Dinning, but after one line he interjects two subtle sobs. These indicate a despicable mockery, out of character with Sha Na Na, but perhaps Robbie was honestly moved by the story and could not avoid sobbing. In addition, pauses in between some lines were too long, and the chord which Dinning muffled at the end of the original is a clean piano chord in the Sha Na Na version. Teen Angel must be rolling over in her grave...