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Besides generating 90 million kilowatts to light the houses that will dot the new green fields, the dams will divert the pent-up waters through some 900 miles of new canals and ditches to irrigate an estimated 150,000 acres of barren southern plains around the capital city of Cagliari (pop. 100,000). The 100,000 villagers now living in the area may see their present $10-an-acre annual yield multiply eightfold, and the whole level of Sardinian farmers' life should rise to levels undreamed of in the old days when most scratched out a lean living...
Tutti Frutti (Pat Boone; Dot). Most of the lyrics are composed of the title phrases plus the syllables "aw rootie," a tune written to .be sung by a virile but slack-jawed male...
...Married luff never lasts," mourned Britain's new Princess of Wales, in her thick German accent, to a lady in waiting. "Dot is not in de nature." But, alas for poor, playful Amelia Elizabeth Caroline, Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, married love not only failed to last, it never even began. The Prince of Wales, later (1820) to become King George IV, was already secretly married to one woman and deep in the toils of another, his mistress, Lady Jersey, when he sent his emissary to ask Caroline's hand in marriage...
Other versions are even farther away from the original. Les Paul (Capitol) gives it a zithery sound, Tito Puente (Victor) a Latin beat, and Billy Vaughan (Dot) features an off-key whistler. But most versions retain the original's deliberately poverty-stricken melody-five of its eight phrases end on the same querulous note...
...hard to see why Mommy and Daddy would buy this ditty for any child, but rival record companies-King, Capitol and Dot-rushed their own versions on the market. Victor has brought out two novelty versions of the tune; Eartha Kitt sings it sexy ("I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas 'cause I didn't want to be bad"), and Country Clowns Homer and Jethro take the part of the child's hardened parents ("Nuttin's too good fer our Johnny, and that's what he's gonna...