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Buzz Bennett, known on the air as Captain Boogie, is a 32-year-old bushy-haired former disc jockey who dresses like an Old Western street freak, talks like a Madison Avenue adman and currently has a six-figure income. Bennett is a radio doctor-one of the top half a dozen itinerant programming consultants who specialize in transforming dull and unprofitable pop-music stations into listener-loaded moneymakers...
...Buzz has got the right vibes," says Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack. "Why, even his employees listen to his station when they are off duty." That is quite a tribute, especially when station employees can hardly be taken in by one of Bennett's simplest but highly effective ploys, which is to ever so slightly increase the speed of selected pop songs. This device makes other stations sound slow while Bennett's pace seems distinctly upbeat...
...time and $7,000 out of your bank account for six lessons in Jamaica and Houston. Tennis, anyone? The Wise Man is John Newcombe, the venue near San Antonio, the price $8,650 for a day. You dream of winning the Kentucky Derby? For a mere $5,750, Top Jockey Mary Bacon will help steer equestrian Mittys toward the winner's circle. Sakowitz's least expensive offering is the three-day bronc-buster or bull-rider clinic chaired by Larry Mahan of Mesquite, Texas, which costs $230 and includes bunk and beans. Bring your own accident insurance...
...bothered to appeal the decision, probably because Ravenel was not expected to win the primary. But when he did, his opponents began to consider the letter of the law. A suit to overturn Ravenel's candidacy was brought by two unlikely litigants, Ben Dekle, a right-wing disc jockey, and Milton Dukes, a restaurant owner who perpetually runs for office and never wins. Last month the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5 to 0 that Ravenel could...
...still has no Minister of Defense, no chief of staff and no top naval commander. The coalition of political interests that makes up the party leadership group remains awkwardly strained; military leaders try to hold on to the power they gained during the Cultural Revolution, while radicals and moderates jockey for position within the party...