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...Extremism has had its say," Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, told his Ford Hall Forum audience last night. "We need more self-examination, less accusation of the other fellow...
...whether Titan II had been successfully modified for the man-in-space program. It used a different guidance system and many safety devices to protect the lives of the astronauts whom it will carry later in the program. The Titan's engines were modified to reduce its characteristic "pogo-stick" (up-and-down) vibration, which might incapacitate a human crew. Reports came back that everything worked fine...
...worse of all, and most difficult to remedy, was the pogo-stick quality of actors' sensitivity. When some inspired foolishness by Martin, Segall, or Miss Adams seemed to have lifted the show to greatness at last, one failure to respond or another sent it pludging down again...
When power looms appeared in England, the weavers revolted and smashed. Mankind may not have learned a lot since then, but the automators have. Though Harvard raised riots for Pogo, Latin, and panties, there will be no upheaval over Widener's mechanized checkout station. Who would lead it? The unemployed old librarians now washing decades of Cambridge dust into azure Tampa Bay? The young men whose requests are received and punched by the fewer but much finer female technicians replacing the old librarians...
While mayor of Cambridge in 1952-1953, DeGuglielmo successfully defended several Harvard undergraduates jailed during the famous Pogo riots, and he has been known as one of the University's stanchest friends on the Council. Under Cambridge's city-manager system of government, the Councillors elect one of their number mayor, the office being largely ceremonial...