Word: lollipops
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...commercialized in the early '50s when "sound systems men"-itinerant disc jockeys who became reggae's first record producers-traveled from village to village with amplifiers and a stackful of primitive recordings made by local musicians. By 1964 Singer Millie Small's reggae recording My Boy Lollipop sold 6,000,000 copies, scoring in the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic. But it was not until Johnny Nash's Hold Me Tight, in 1968, followed a year later by Jimmy Cliff's Wonderful World, Beautiful People, that reggae captured an American following...
...something only a born hillbilly could love. Now flat-picked guitars and twangy banjos have begun to compete with even the loudest howls of amplified rock; soulful laments about careless love are heard as often as hip pop. Last year's cornball is this year's lollipop−and to underline changing tastes, a new monthly magazine, Country Music, is Johnny-Cashing...
...practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children's clothing, candy, ice cream, soft drinks and potato chips were removed-inspiring newspapers to dub Barber's concoction a "lollipop budget...
Beneath the lollipop blandness, however, the new budget represents a long gamble on the part of the Conservative government. Prime Minister Edward Heath is determined to continue his fight against inflation by maintaining what Nixon-watching officials call his "Stage II" controls on wages, prices, profits and dividends. At the same time, he wants to stimulate the economy to maintain the present growth rate of 5%. To achieve this, he is prepared to increase government spending by 14%, without increasing taxes, and to accept a budget deficit of $11 billion next year...
Many still remember her as a curly-haired moppet singing the Good Ship Lollipop; but Shirley Temple Black, now 44 and the mother of three children, has devoted her recent years to public affairs-as a congressional candidate, U.N. delegate and special assistant on the President's Council on Environmental Quality. Stricken with a breast tumor, Shirley not only underwent a mastectomy but publicly announced the operation so "that women will not be afraid to go to their doctors for diagnosis when they have unusual symptoms." Doctors reported that they had removed all malignancy, and Shirley declared...