Word: demo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Music, Demo, Talk. Although he hopes to be syndicated and eventually perhaps make a network comeback, he is starting in modest style. Instead of yesterday's Today army of 116 staffers, Garroway gets along with just six in Boston. The format, in TV jargon, is "music, demo, demo, talk, talk"-guest singer or jazz group, a visual demonstration of something like glassblowing or astronomy, and the inevitable circuit-riding horde of authors promoting books or public figures pushing causes. Garroway calls it the "desk and sofa concept," and he certainly should know. Yet his taste, often waggish, brings...
...home state of Connecticut. The new politician, Thayer Baldwin, a New Haven attorney who serves as co-chairman of the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats, took exception to Bailey's defense of the state's tightly-controlled convention system of nominating candidates for public office. Bailey said that Connecticut Demo crafts--running nominees selected in this manner--had enjoyed a long series of electoral victories; Baldwin replied that rather than being preoccupied with winning elections, the party should serve as a "lobbyist for the people who are its members...
...record executives tell the story with a straight face. It's last April, and one of their veeps comes in with demo tapes of an unknown girl singer, name of Roslyn Kind. Yawns all around. But then the voice comes on, strong and hard-edged, like all the Barbra Streisands in the world rolled up in one. Cynics straighten up in their chairs; jaded old ears listen for the flawed cadence, the flattened phrase that never comes. Another listen, then unanimity: Sign her up. Only then does the guy who brought the tapes spring his surprise...
London's bobbies may or may not recognize themselves in an article by Author Mary McCarthy in the current issue of the New York Review of Books. Recounting London's Oct. 27 antiwar demonstration, Miss McCarthy writes that the bobbies prepared for the "Demo" by "sleeping in at the police station with a barrel of beer. It worried me that with all that beer the police might have hangovers the next day, which would make them irritable." But no. As it turned out, the "more inactive" police "were amused by the whole scene, especially since they were under...
...scene at Uppsala smacked more of a New Left "demo" than of a religious body in pious conference. Two student pickets who attempted a sidewalk teach-in were dragged off by Swedish cops. Some conferees slipped away to watch an underground flick replete with scenes of pot-smoking derelicts, shaggy folk singers and a minister who-in anguish at the chaos and cacophony of life in the cities-strips to the buff atop his pulpit. In other ways as well, the 701 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox delegates to the World Council of Churches' Fourth Assembly were exposed last week...