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When it comes to politics, Li'I Abner and Pogo, which have satirized it for years, are at least as up to date as the men in Washington. Two characters that bear a remarkable resemblance to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l Abner's Dogpatch to learn why it is the one pollution-free spot in the U.S. Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes...
...need saving?) they were the longest hardest pricks in the world. We have only what we have, and we are certainly not fondling anything as it grows colder and colder. And a whole segment of the march line on Tremont Street is jumping up and down with blood curdling pogo stick yells, but it is only to keep warm. (How many people here have seen Battle of Algiers...
...Murrow on the scene with the bombs falling. The Harvard Independent has a rapid turnover of reporters, who are unexceptional. The Harvard Gazette, the administration paper, is represented by David Cudhea, who has long thin sideburns and was once arrested way back in the famous 1950's in the Pogo Riots even though he was a CRIMSON reporter. Large numbers of Yearbook people take pictures for their big book. And John Bethell, who never takes notes, covers it for the Harvard (Alumni) Bulletin...
...groups have used the same acronym in other cities including Washington, where GASP stands for Greater Alliance to Stop Pollution. In Berkeley, a group called Ecology Action has developed a kind of street theater to dramatize pollution protests. To celebrate "Smog-Free Locomotion Day," the members recently took to pogo sticks, stilts, bicycles, unicycles, roller skates-any and every alternative to the internal combustion engine. Later they symbolically buried an auto engine painted black and splattered with mock blood...
...POGO SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pogo and his pals from the Okefenokee Swamp decide that every day should be a holiday and start things off by throwing a surprise birthday party for Porky Pine...