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...reason for the bureaucrats' suspicion is simply that the August industrial price surge caught Washington by surprise. Through the months of relative price peace, the Government's inflation-watching machinery has grown rusty. Commerce Secretary Alexander Trowbridge, who had scheduled a routine hold-the-line price pep talk with steelmen in Washington for this week, was caught flat-footed by the bar-products rise. Unless and until the machin ery gets back into well-oiled condition, there are bound to be more squeaks and squawks ahead...
...Young Women's Christian Association head quarters in Detroit, under banners reading DRY CRUSADERS and CONSERVATIVE-AMERICAN-CHRISTIAN, were some 50 delegates of the Prohibition Party. When a speaker really got warmed up, the delegates, with a rustling of shawls, erupted in lusty choruses of "Amen!" For pep songs, they turned to the New Day Temperance Songs pamphlet. For hardhitting oratory, they had Michigan Fundamentalist Charles Ewing, who deplored life under the Great Society as "a syncopated Watusi," in which "grey-haired mothers and grandmothers have shortened their skirts, exposed their bones, lit up their cigarettes, put on their...
...rather than air-raid sirens, that delivered the full realization of war to the people on both sides. A full hour after the first sirens and some four hours after the attack, Radio Cairo got around to announcing the Israeli air raids, and then the martial music and martial pep talks began. "Our people have been waiting 20 years for this battle," roared Cairo. "Now they will teach Israel the lesson of death! The Arab armies have a rendezvous in Israel...
...performance that some are tempted to do too much. It is one thing for a swimmer to shave all the hair off his body to make an infinitesimal change in the resistance he offers to the water; it is something else again for "bennies," "dexies" and other assorted pep pills to pile up on the locker-room shelf. Almost inevitably, the International Olympic Committee announced that before the 1968 games in Mexico City all athletes will be carefully checked lest they use any stimulating dope...
...Load per man for a two-day mission: Claymore mine and 240 rounds of ammo; four canteens of water and three meals of dried meat with rice; compass, flare gun, signal mirror, orange-and-cerise panel to signal for help; morphine for wounds, pep pills for drowsiness, codeine to kill coughs that might betray a position, antidysentery pills; tape to ward off leeches by closing off wrists and ankles of uniforms...