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...Real Wing-Ding...
...host of Ding Dong School...
...heavily industrialized city were operating below normal levels, Roman Catholics were hard-pressed to support their own parochial schools, elderly residents with no stake in education were feeling the pressures of inflation. Surprisingly, two radio talk shows on which citizens aired their grievances hurt the school cause. "All the ding-a-lings called in to spread their ignorance and misinformation-and people believe all those nuts because they hear it on the radio," complained one school official. Some callers, for example, falsely claimed that the school board had extra money hidden away, and that the state would pick...
Today's trainees, virtually reared on the tube, are hooked on the Army's version of Ding-Dong School. Unwittingly, they are participants in one of the few radical advances in teaching the arts of war made since the days when Julius Caesar's centurions were bawling out greenhorns as they learned the goose-stepping passus Romanus. Replacing hoary drill instructors are cool specialists; no longer mechanical spiels learned by rote and replete with undigested, ill-pronounced jargon, lessons are couched in the G.I.s' everyday language; small items of equipment once invisible to troopers...
Stitches & Sponges. All the hot-rod-ding around in heavy traffic naturally has its perils. At last count, Bing has had 28 stitches taken in his face, and the fingers of his right hand have been jammed so often that he tapes a sponge above his knuckles for protection. But Detroit will keep him out there if they have to stick him together with Elmer's Glue-All. A couple of years ago, the Pistons occasionally had trouble luring 1,000 people into Cobo Arena to see them play. This year, attendance averages 7,500, and six times...