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...January, another Federal district Court judge, Damon J. Keithe, ruled in a case involving three White Panthers that the Justice Department was not entitled to place wiretaps on domestic "subversives" without a warrant. White Panthers John Sinclair. John Forest, and Lawrence (Pun) Plumondon are on trial in Detroit for conspiring to bomb a CIA office in that city. Plumondon has also been charged with actually bombing the office-on September 29, 1968. Judge Keith ordered the Justice Department to turn over logs from its wire taps to the defendants so that their lawyers could determine whether or not the government...
Charles Glover and Tina Williamson are delightful, playing a pair of sweet, artless, Elizabethan lovers. Their stage names? Prepare yourself-Toby and Notoby. As soon as you see their names on the program, you know someone is going to elaborate on the pun. Sir Keold finally satisfies the audience's expectations with this melodramatic sililoquy...
...Than a pun...
...Sick Pun. Viewers of both genders will find their gourds rising at the occasional witlessness and tastelessness of the happy-talk humor. Reporting last year on the serious illness of Igor Stravinsky, a WABC banana man punned: "His heart is not right this spring." On Middle East stories, the station stoops to leads like, "Egypt and Israel continued to kick sand in each other's faces," or "The Israelis have as many reservations [about a truce continuation] as we have Indians." On Detroit's WJBK, a banana man playing Rowan to his forecaster's Martin asked...
...Beach Boys album, we can expect a certain amount of schlock, and, one again, they don't disappoint us. "Deirdre," which tries to justify its lyrics with the pun "dear, dear, Deirdre," sounds like Gary Lewis and the Playboys' "The joker is Wild" played at half-tempo. Likewise, "At My Window" is a cutesy sentimental ballad, full of sound effects of birds chirping...