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...election night, when the landslide was rolling in, Herbert Brownell, who had slipped out to a chiropractor during the campaign to get the tensions worked out of his body, allowed himself to release his pent-up emotions. He jigged up & down the hall at campaign headquarters in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, singing old college songs (off key) at the top of his lungs...
...Yearbook has put out other parodies of the CRIMSON. As a matter of fact, any group, and especially a game one which publishes only once a year, almost invariably seeks new outlets for its pent-up frustration. Every little parody helps...
...husband, Jerry, are capitalizing on Manhattan's current parakeet boom. They claim that parakeets are outselling canaries at a rate of 9 to 1. The reason? Many urban apartment buildings now bar cats, dogs and children, so parakeets are fulfilling "the pent-up need for pets." Explains Lu: "Parakeets can be taught to talk. They can be taken out of a cage and handled. There's a sensual thing involved. A parakeet offers one of the few rewarding relationships that are left...
Much of the boom is supported by debt; consumer credit, for example, stands at an alltime high of $21.7 billion, 12% above a year ago. And much of the pent-up demand for goods has been satisfied. There is little doubt that some industries will eventually have to go through painful readjustments such as television, textiles and some chemical companies experienced in the past year. But there,is also the prospect that reductions in taxes (see below), plus a more cost-conscious approach to government in general, will put more real income in the hands of consumers and counterbalance...
...Gordon McKay Laboratory, a pent-house is under construction, making possible the carrying on of antenna research...