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...newest working materials for sculpture are electronic gadgets-solid-state circuits, cathode tubes, transistors and photoelectric cells. The results are intriguing thingumajigs for a technological age. The New York season has introduced two newcomers whose machines have all systems a Go-Go, invite human participation in their antics, and in return produce cacophonies akin to electronic music...
...Fuzz. The youthful takeover of the Strip began four years ago, after TV had caused the Hollywood movie industry to slump and Las Vegas had wooed away the big-name entertainers. This left a vacuum that high school teen-agers rushed in to fill. Soon a dozen more à Go-Go clubs sprouted along the length of the Strip itself. Since the Strip was an unincorporated free zone loosely administered by Los Angeles County, club owners last year succeeded in gaining "youth permits" to admit minors under 21, provided that they were not served liquor. The stampede...
...exception to all the gaudy gullaballoo was, of course, VW, looking wallflowery as ever. No go-go here. No folk singer either. A white gowned mechanic expounded the virtues of synchromesh, rear wheel drive, and a well balanced engine. Too bad he couldn't extemporize verses. He could have had fun to the tune of "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, you'd better make an ugly woman your wife...
...pizazz, a lot of sex," he explained. "I tried to turn people on, to show them that politics wasn't boring, or useless, or distant. We used every device known to Tammany Hall: we raffled off turkeys and transistor radios, held bingo games, and even hired go-go girls to wake people...
Pago à Go-Go. When the presidential party touched down for a 115-minute refueling stop at Pago Pago (pronounced pongo pongo or pahgo pahgo) on the American Samoan isle of Tutuila next day, nearly one-fourth of its 22,000 people turned out, carrying umbrellas and banyan branches against the blazing sun. Along the tapa-cloth welcome mat, 50 bare-chested chiefs and their wives took part in the Pago à Go-Go, draping the President with ulas-Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells...