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That heedless remark, evoking the cliches of hoary antiSemitism, was the worst-aimed bomb of four-star Air Force General George S. Brown's 33-year military career. When it exploded last week, President Ford called Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, into the Oval Office for a ten-minute reprimand. New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits demanded an investigation. Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin called for Brown's resignation...
Rafto's roommates are not so fond of his running. "Just smell his socks, then tell what you think of him," one ribbed. But Rafto evaded the remark as he slipped out the door for his afternoon jaunt...
Zappa changed directions in his second show, however, which ran an hour longer than the first. This time he seemed annoyed with audience requests, particularly one boisterous command of "let's boogie." It was an insulting remark; asking Frank Zappa to boogie is like asking Igor Stravinsky to write a Broadway musical...
...pressure to record million-selling albums. "Be-Bop Tango" is among the best cuts on the new record because it typifies Zappa music and Zappa humor. If you listen carefully to George Duke's scat singing, you hear strains of Thelonius Monk's "Straight No Chaser" and a Zappa remark about 4/4 time: "It's a pedestrian beat. You don't dance...
...some battles: he successfully resisted pressure for quick decontrol of domestic oil prices. But in September he testified to a Senate subcommittee that the U.S. had no short-term policy for reversing the rise in world oil prices; the remark angered Henry Kissinger. Last month Sawhill sealed his doom. Disobeying White House orders to keep quiet, he went on television to explain his proposal for a 10?-to 30?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline after the Administration had rejected the idea. Morton said last week that Sawhill was being removed for lack of "executive compatibility." Ford asserted that Sawhill...