Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bensen gyrocopter as "the closest thing to a flying chair yet made by man" [May 27]. Textron's Bell Aerosystems Company has been flying for nearly a year a rocket-propelled device known as the Flying Chair. In addition, Bell has developed another rocket-propelled device, the Pogo Stick. These devices have been flown more than 2,500 times with 100% reliability. The Flying Chair doesn't quite match the flight duration of Mr. Bensen's craft yet, but we're working on that...
...first major riot of the century occurred in May, 1952 when noisy students gathered in the Yard, awaiting the arrival of Walt Kelly at a rally to kick off the "Pogo for President" campaign. The Cambridge police, used clubs and fists against the rioters, arresting 28 students toting "Pogo for President" placards. All were acquitted, however, with the help of Joseph A. DcGuglielmo '29, then Mayor of Cambridge, who served as defense attorney...
...Okefenokee's Pogo...
...sticks. It hurts a little bit." Adds Al Capp, who has produced some pungent humor of his own-and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography-in the hillbilly world of Li'I Abner: "The new comics are the real Black Humorists." In Walt Kelly's Pogo, a group of peculiarly human denizens of Okefinokee Swamp -a cigar-chewing alligator, a bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only trenchant political satire to be found in the comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters...
Charlie's chief tormentor, Lucy van Pelt, is a tiny, black-haired termagant, a caricature of the modern aggressive female. "Here's a perfect parody of what American life is supposed to be," says Pogo's creator Walt Kelly: "The ineffectual male and the domineering female." "Blockhead!" Lucy shouts at Charlie, and the insult throws him into a somersault. When she has outwitted him, she purrs: "I admire your boundless faith in human nature." Bellows this girl who aspires to go to military school: "I don't want any downs-I just want...