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Zero Absenteeism. The Illinois festival was only the tip of a jazz iceberg. From grad to grammar school, hot jazz is becoming the most popular thing since hot lunch. Even kindergartners and children in the first three grades are tapping their toes at Berkeley's Washington Elementary School, with rhythmic help from teachers like Saxophonist Bob Houlehan. In junior highs and high schools throughout the U.S., where old-fashioned swing over rock-rhythm sections is the vogue, an estimated 16,000 jazz bands are taking over from marching bands as an intramural way of life. Says Irving Bard, music...
...juice, compared with $5,000 worth in 1965. Half of the 46,000 tons of mostly frozen orange juice bought by Sweden last year came from Florida: it sold briskly at an expensive 43? for a 6-oz. can. European consumers are also starting to nibble at American iceberg lettuce-to the dismay of gourmets, who find the limper, leafier continental varieties more delicate. Imports into Germany have doubled in two years, even though iceberg heads (known as Eissalat) retail for up to 60? per lb., three times as much as lettuce grown locally. The Swedes, who until recently regarded...
...smart as I am, or smarter; she got two degrees. But she's a quiet, humble, beautiful woman because she knows the position of her place, she likes it." And he added: "Each ho thinks her man is God. Do you understand how beautiful that is?" Iceberg Slim even admitted to playing God, because "what lowly little whore can resist...
...pimp's total control over his women starts from the moment he takes a "square broad" (a non-prostitute) and "turns her out" (initiates her). "Pimping isn't a sex game," said Iceberg Slim. "It's a skull game." In other words, a pimp has to use his head and his psychological skills. Bruce explained: "It's a brainwashing process. When you turn a chick out, you take away every set of values and morality that she previously had and create a different environment. Instead of bookkeepers or secretaries for friends, you give her professional...
...latter ranges from $25,000 to $50,000, out of which the pimp pays lawyers and bail bondsmen, buys food, cars, clothes, and sometimes drugs for himself and his stable. A communal apartment, with a pimp and several women living together, is one way of saving money, but Iceberg Slim had only scorn for that arrangement: "That's not an elegant way to pimp...