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...Pow-pa-dow, Umph! And there is no escaping them; they rock around the ticktock. At 6 a.m. each weekday, several thousand Baltimoreans begin their day with a chorus of earsplitting chimes and 300-lb. Fat Daddy shouting: "Hear me now! Let me sock it to ya, Momma! From the depths of a fat man's soul, a golden oldie from outa the past with a star-studded cast! A WWIN radio blast! Shep and the Heartbeats! Eeetiddlydee! Come...
...voice," he boasts, "can cut through the traffic noise." Sample: "A world premiere right here on the Real Don Steele show-boss hit-bound the Lovin' Spoonful's She Is Still a Mystery at 3:43 KHJ, break-the-bank time on the Real Don Steele show pow-pow-pow-pa-dow, umph!" Though incoherent to untutored ears, the spiel mentions all the essentials: name of the show, title of song, performer, time, station identification and promotion-all in ten seconds. Marvels one executive: "He really makes clichés come alive...
...life and soul of the Labor Party." The paper praised Brown for unquestioned intelligence, but said that "it is George at his worst who sends shivers down our backs, the George who makes an ass of himself at diplomatic soirees and powwows. Too much wow and not enough pow. Mr. George Brown can no longer hope to be accepted and acclaimed as an intelligent Foreign Secretary if he does not display greater reticence over the point at which Genial George, or George the Clown, takes over...
...Your POW camp training article [Sept. 1] revived memories of similar well-meaning efforts during and after the Korean War. Hardly a base, post or station was without its "torture and brainwash" school. All carried on with the best of intentions, of course. However, when all the evidence was in as to what actually went on in the POW camps of North Korea, it transpired that extremes of physical violence were the exceptions rather than the rule, occurring, it seems, to something like less than 1% of the prisoners. Mistreatment was far more apt to take psychological rather than physical...
...many posters in the Spring Mobilization peace march headquarters read, "The Original Great Springout--A Megalopolitan Peacepipe Pow-Wow--Saturday, April 15, 1967--Many Smokes and Spring Seasonings--Lites, Kites, Pipes, Rites, Sights, Beads, Reeds, Bells, Shells, Smells, Cells, Kids. Aimals. Flowers, Feathers, Corn, Bananas, Peppers, Seeds, Nuts, Forbidden Fruits, Instruments...