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...petty than sinister. Magruder describes how Haldeman once gave his young aide Larry Higby a brutal dressing-down for failing to provide a golf cart to take him 200 yds. across the presidential compound at San Clemente. Haldeman loved to make his far-flung assistants jump by activating their Pageboy beepers, especially when traveling in Air Force One: "[Nixon] and Haldeman and Chapin and the others in the traveling entourage would get up there, 30,000 ft. above the earth, and something would happen to them. It must have been the close-in atmosphere, or perhaps the plane...
...competent performances, the play's humor--which is all it really has to offer--comes off lamely. The depths to which this humor repeatedly falls is demonstrated in a conversation between the nymphomaniac Mrs. Prentice, and the inspecting psychiatrist, Dr. Rance. After Mrs. Prentice informs the Doctor that a pageboy in a local hotel tried to rape her, he asks her if the boy succeeded. She replies in the negative and the doctor responds "Well, the service in those hotels is terrible...
Freedom of Expression. The New York Jets' Joe Namath was once instantly recognizable with his fancy white cleats, long hair and Fu Manchu mustache. But now Joe is being upstaged by a whole host of players with twinkle-toe shoes and pageboy locks. Defensive End Tommy Hart, who started a run on white cleats among the San Francisco 49ers, says gleefully: "We're psychedelic, man!" The Chicago Cubs' Joe Pepitone, who favors lavender suede sashes and see-through paisley shirts off duty, gets his kicks on the field by wearing a fluffy hairpiece. In the National Basketball...
They come onstage like three hippies and an undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
Among manufacturers of radio pagers, Motorola dominates, with about 80% of the market. Its Pageboy receivers range in price from $180 for low-frequency units, to $275 for VHP. Low-frequency transmission requires no FCC license, is mostly for on-the-premise calls. Low-frequency beepers keep executives on their toes in 66 IBM plants throughout the U.S., New York's Americana Hotel coordinates staff activities with them, and department stores use them to alert floorwalking detectives when shoplifters are spotted...