Word: jockey
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...technical snafus. The first night his microphone went dead, and there were miscues for commercials. Beyond that, Paar-quite understandably-was more than usually nervous. "Look at me," he said. "I look confident and serene. Would you believe that I put both feet through the same hole in my Jockey shorts...
Consider the latest chapter in the saga of the pirate radio ships operating in the North Sea. Anchored just outside territorial waters off The Netherlands, these vessels beam a mixture of pop music, disk-jockey egos and insistent commercials into homes otherwise served only by relatively sedate Dutch broadcasting. Until recently, this profitable operation was shared by Radio Veronica and Radio Northsea, which had agreed to a truce after three frogmen hired by one of Veronica's owners had planted a bomb aboard Northsea (TIME, May 31,1971). Now, though, something new has come between Veronica and Northsea...
...device is made by Macom Products Corp., a firm that was started in August. Its founder and chief, Howard Mercer, 29, a former ski instructor and disk jockey, teamed up with two Mattel toy executives and designed the device. From August through October, Macom earned $281,000 before taxes, on sales...
...Stade family are renowned horsemen. Skiddy's father, who was also named Skiddy--"He was what you called in those days a gentleman jockey," Skiddy Jr. says--founded the Museum of Racing in Saratoga, N.Y., along with Averill Harriman...
...afford much live music, you can always listen to the radio. WBCN is about the best FM Stereo Rock on this coast. BCN is low-key, barely playlisted, and its music is, at times, inspired. Its strongest point is its almost complete reliance on the whim of the disc jockey. WBZ and WEEI both play computerized rock and roll, not particularly progressive, and not too low-key. Both the music and the announcing reminds one of WPLJ-FM in New York...