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...list is heavily studded with Jewish names, but it also includes a few McKay's and O'Connell's and even a Saltonstall. The guests at the head table represent Mass Pax, the NAACP, the UFW, the UAW, and an Afro-American arts center. Still, you wonder, beneath their mod exterior, how different are these Boston liberals from the older, straight-backed stereotypes...
...screech or reverberation to get in the way of the music. For the uninitiated-or for those who turned off when Jimi turned on before an audience like a black Elvis Presley-The Cry of Love should be sufficient proof that there was indeed heart beneath his mod show-business veneer...
...MILITARY GOING MOD. I'm shaking in my boots. I am scared to death. When you turn the military into a country club, discipline goes out the window. The military is not a democracy. Are we going to have miniskirts in the mess halls? Will the commanding officer and the enlisted men pass each other and give a wave and say "Hi, toots"? They'll get so soft they won't get dirt on their hands...
...Claus, [elev.] 9 feet, pop. 108," and a post office substation where extra workers were hired to handle up to 10,000 pieces of mail that passed through each day during the Christmas season. Auger's wife took out the last of their savings and bought him a mod sleigh-a small plane with Santa Claus faces painted on its sides-and Auger flew into Santa Monica and Los Angeles with a sack over his shoulder. Local civic clubs would arrange for scores of kids to greet him: "The kids would all gang up around the airplane...
Zumwalt's increasingly mod Navy is a far cry from the spit-and-polish service that Cover Writer Ed Magnuson knew in the years from 1944 to 1946, and again during Korea. "After a year of advanced training in electronics," he recalls, "my first assignments were to chip rust off the sides of a submarine tender and serve as a base telephone operator...