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Well, that happened was that Donna was pretty well upstaged. She was upstaged by something that said a lot more about the music and the people than she, in fire-engine red pants suit and pep talk tones, could say. What happened was that after Freddy Hart and the Heartbeats, with the lights glittering off their sequined seams and tapping patent leather boots had knocked out a few tunes, and after Freddy Hart had invoked the late great Hank Williams and the late great Tex Ritter, and told the audience, with the genuine feeling of the poor boy made good...
...Saturday-morning sales meeting, salesmen disconsolately kicked the floor or coughed nervously as the owner delivered a classic pep talk...
...fiery speech did about as much good as halftime pep talks usually do; despite free Green Stamps, and cut-price kits allowing customers to convert their cars to burn propane gas, Worthington's Dodge Boys sold only ten cars that day v. forty on a normal Saturday...
Harvard on Wednesday responded by organizing a special Programmed Energy Preservation Team (PEP) to implement the necessary changes in energy consumption. PEP chief Maurice E. Rice and a team of engineers have begun to traverse the 7.5 miles of underground steam tunnels nightly to shut off heat valves in classrooms and librariers, and to lower dormitory temperatures to 60 degrees. Engineers restore all building temperatures up to 68 degrees each morning...
Leslie E. Thomas, manager of utilities, expressed optimism that his crew and PEP could meet the 28-percent cutback and further reductions that are anticipated in coming months...