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Strike activity at most of the schools has remained peaceful but campus uneasiness has not entirely subsided. Students and police clashed on several campuses yesterday and Julie and David Eisenhower have decided to skip their graduation ceremonies to avoid the risk of insult and embarrassment...
Died. Joe Pyne, 45, radio and TV talk-show host who made an institution of the insult; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. A World War II Marine with a wooden leg and a chip on his shoulder, Pyne devoted his programs largely to hucksters and kooks, whom he ridiculed with such niceties as "Jerk," "Meathead," and "Go gargle with razor blades." He delighted in saying, "I'm not a nice guy, and I don't want to be." At his peak in 1966, Pyne's programs occupied 27 hours of air time each week, and earned...
...think Morning was devised to offend, but not to insult, to play into the audience's embarrassments more than their sensibilities. The people who wandered in were seeing things for the first time in a college playhouse [the Loeb]. It's offending to kids who think they know where they're at." Among other things, Morning concerned a black family which wakes up one morning to find that they are white, a crazed white man who accuses the son of having slept with his daughter, and vomiting...
...Kirkland House athletic secretaries, golfing in Florida, could not be reached to return the insult...
...tailback from 1938 to 1940, Christman gained a record 4,133 yds.; in 1947 he quarterbacked the then Chicago Cardinals to their last National Football League championship. Beginning in 1958, he brought terse, knowledgeable sports analysis to all three major networks (most recently CBS). His formula for success: "Never insult the intelligence of your viewer. If you have nothing to say, shut...