Word: disks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South, particularly in Georgia, where Sherman's march cut such a vast swath, a widespread (and individually selfish) safari of as many as 500 relic collectors can be found crisscrossing carefully over the once bloodied ground. Each wears earphones connected to a long-handled ground-sweeper disk, powered by transistor batteries, which transmits a constant hum through the earphones. Whenever it finds metal, there is a sudden crescendo to the hum, the signal to dig for an antique that may be anywhere from an inch to 6 ft. down, since little of any value is left on the surface...
...origin of the species. They have bought the second Monkee LP even faster than the first. It is all there: the early-Beatle beat and the simplistic lyrics ("I promise you the sun is going to shine again"). I'm a Believer is the hit of the disk...
...magazine also has its own special crusades. It recently brought enough pressure to win a parole for a West Virginia disk jockey who was serving a one-to-ten-year sentence for a morals offense with a consenting teen-age girl. Another notable success involved a campaign against entrapment tactics practiced by?no, not the CIA but, of all agencies, the Post Office. Seems that postal inspectors were in the habit of placing an ad in a newspaper to the effect that one "swinger" would like to meet another. When letters were exchanged, the unsuspecting hedonist might include a nude...
Captain of His Soul. Dirksen's Gallant Men, Stories of the American Adventure, was recorded, appropriately, by Capitol. It has sold so well (around 410,000 copies) that he has declaimed a second disk, scheduled to appear about Easter time, with favorite readings from the Bible and a dramatic recital of W. E. Henley's Invictus ("I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul"). Disk-and TV-wise, however, the fate of the turned-on Senator rests with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), which has politely told him that...
...conference since Congress last month decided not to seat him pending an investigation of his free-wheeling way with public funds. But then Powell never before had made a hot-selling record. According to Jubilee Records, 1,300,000 orders have already been received for Powell's cloying disk, Keep the Faith, Baby. The star, crowing over receipts of 280 for every $4.79 record sold, understandably could hardly talk about anything else...