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...Daily Princetonian reported that a surprising number of Princeton women intended to write advertising copy for their candidates. Most of these coeds (Bang to PLUG.) found the two week period a bit trying, for they were not able in that short time span to gather enough material to create a good advertising spread. (Play "Tiger Rag," then jump to BALL...
...correct such deficiencies, Vermont's environmental control board is now trying to plug legal loopholes and set more realistic standards. But it chose the hard way to learn how to serve the causes of both industry and good environment...
...into the big, clean American sound of WUSA, the sound of a decent generation." The disk jockey is a drunken, apolitical animal named Rheinhardt (Paul Newman), whose job is to plug crypto-fascism for good ole WUSA, a right-wing New Orleans radio station. By night he delivers his spiel under the heel of the station's jackboot-minded owner (Pat Hingle). By day he wallows in booze and self-pity ("I had it made and I woke up one morning, I looked down and fell off my life") in the arms of his pathetic paramour, a hooker named...
...through her novel. Others may see evolution as a reasonably deserved survival of the fittest. Her gift, and her curse, is to see the universe as one living creature that survives only by devouring parts of itself. Even the cord of an electric typewriter can seem organic-a "hungry plug drinking a sinister transfusion...
...Bouton, at age 22, was the finest young pitcher in baseball, a star on the '63 world champion New York Yankees. He wore his blonde hair short, and T.V. advertising executives begged for his services to plug their latest masculinity-producing hair tonics. Then two things happened to Jim Bouton: he lost his fastball, and the owners and other players discovered that he was a flake...