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Always the hardest choice is in areas (and there are a great many these days) where the news is interesting-new scientific discoveries are made, a new fad takes hold or a new trend in industry develops-but no one person embodies the subject. Happier are the occasions when a topic is news, and one person in the field stands...
...Penguin originated several weeks ago with the release of the Lampoon's long playing record, "The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium." The record featured, among other Lampoon-type-humored rock 'n' roll songs, the Ivy League's answer to the twist fad...
...perfumed finger bowl or a waitress. It isn't the cost of food that has gone up, it's the service. We are in the meat and potatoes business -and meat and potatoes aren't a fad...
...Laue is not the only glib man in the magazine. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 inconclusively uses the mass media as whipping boy for the bomb shelter fad. But he has a word of comfort: "an all-out attack, precipitated perhaps by the certitude of survival, will destroy many printing presses...
...must be a square. I just can't get with this popular race suicide, helter-skelter-shelter fad, as pleasurable as it sounds...