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Strange are the things a candidate will stomach to win a few votes. Consider the fortitude of Roman ("Pooch") Pucinski, the Democratic Illinois Congressman who is waging an uphill battle to unseat first-term Republican Senator Charles Percy...
...been lured away by a campus goldfish-swallowing contest. "The student chairman was very apologetic," says Pucinski, "and we went to the contest to announce that I was there." Upon his appearance, the students began chanting, "Eat a fish! Eat a fish!" Never one to ignore an opening, Pooch downed one of the little wrigglers. "A goldfish is sort of like a martini," said Pucinski later, swallowing hard. "After the first one, they're not bad. Once I'd swallowed it, I couldn't feel it wriggle...
Originally released in 1955 by RCA, a company whose trademark is a pensive pooch, the canine rendition of Jingle Bells sold 500,000 copies, then vanished into limbo. Recently, Howard Smith of Manhattan FM station WPLJ started plugging it again and received so many inquiries from listeners that he alerted RCA. When officials dug up a copy and played it for Sam Goody, one of their major distributors who also owns a big chain of New York-based record stores, Goody staggered them by ordering 10,000 copies...
...equipment that would both intrigue and energize a dog. One child's park had a catapult that hurled magnetized dog biscuits, which dogs chased as the biscuits automatically flew back. Several children proposed motorized treadmills, one of which was patrolled by four armed guards to keep the poor pooch from running off it. Another treadmill design featured a screen on which a movie of a rabbit was projected while air blowers bombarded the dog with bunny scent. A girl put her pet on springs that jiggled its feet. A device that pulled dogs along was propelled by an ingenious...
...adolescents involved. "Pooch" (if you can believe it) and Jerry, are freshmen at college. (College... you know what that is, where they have mad, crushing parties in the middle of the day with loud music and people pouring beer on each other's heads; where your roommate leeringly asks you if you have laid your girlfriend yet... you must have read about it somewhere.) Pookie is slightly neurotic, if one would describe a person with all the symptoms of a speed-freak in those words. Jerry is straightman. He is so deeply affected by contact with the chick that...