Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atoll missiles, a Communist version of the heat-seeking Sidewinder, none of the Red planes fired them in last week's dogfights. Even so the U.S. confirmed what it had suspected: that the MIG-21 is indeed, as Pentagon Air Operations Colonel Thomas D. ("Robbie") Robertson observed, "one hell of a good bird." The Phantom, at 1,584 m.p.h. on the straightaway, is swifter (by some 300 m.p.h.) and more powerful. But the lighter, single-seat MIG-21 has an advantage in maneuverability, and a 10% faster rate of climb...
...supporting roles are strong. Chris Baker plays the chorus leader with rhetorical flair, and Pat Diehl is appropriately massive, first as Herakles and late as Aecus, the doorman of Hell. The frog chorus, made up of Raker, Diehl, Popovich, and Fred Whelan, sings everything from march tunes to Christmas carols with polish. The Initiates, led by Jane Jackson, perform with fervent abandon, and in the second act create a hissing, cheering audience for the great debate...
...vogue started with California's Hell's Angels, whose motorcycle brigades also like to sport Nazi swastikas (TIME, Jan. 21). Then it spread to surfers, who began exchanging their St. Christopher medals for Iron Cross pendants (now sold as his-and-her pairs, charm bracelets and even earrings). Soon landlocked emulators across the U.S. took up the fad. Explains Chicago's Walter Wagner, 17: "I'd like to be a surfer, but you can't do much on Lake Michigan. If you can't surf and you can't have a board...
...takes greater pleasure, and profit, from the new craze than Los Angeles' Ed ("Big Daddy") Roth, the 275-lb. supply sergeant for Hell's Angels, who was first on the bandwagon, has sold 51,800 to date. Roth, who specializes in morbid-art decals for the hip trade (latest sample: a baby with sign reading "Born Dead"), sees the Iron Crosses as setting a whole new trend, and he has already followed up with an even newer vogue: plastic copies of the Wehrmacht iron helmet. Says he: "They really reach into a kid's deepest emotions." Beyond...
...cameras. The result might easily be mistaken for a show's out-of-town run-through on a night when most of the original cast have been laid low by a virus; yet the film has a certain economy-style charm and a cheeky spirit of what-the-hell-have-we-got-to-lose-for even on stage, Stop the World was never more than a flimsy improvisation on which to hang a saucy, tuneful score...