Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books since 1960 and averaged 125 major speeches a year outside the Senate. "Did they expect me to go to the Senate and do hand springs?" he asks. "To fulminate like Wayne Morse? Or to listen to the same speeches on the same issues?" He refuses to worry about roll-call votes "just to get on the record." And though he scorns fence-mending chores that can devour a Senator's time, Minnesotans don't seem to mind; they seek out Senator Walter Mondale or Congressman John Blatnik instead, and continue to vote for McCarthy...
Flying A gasoline sponsors another Bonnie and Clyde crew. This time they roll up to a Flying A station. They're in a hurry; they've got a "withdrawal" to make. But the overfriendly attendant insists on delivering a pitch for the sponsor's latest premium offer. Finally, a gum-snapping Bonnie says: "Let's gedoutta heah awreddy!" And off they lurch...
That happens to be the direction in which much of the British pop scene is looking nowadays. With their characteristic knack for crystallizing what is in the air, the Beatles have captured the current upsurge of interest in "oldfashioned" rock 'n' roll in Britain. Elvis Presley is back on the charts there with Guitar Man, and his earlier hits like Blue Suede Shoes are going for as much as $4 on the second-hand record market. When Bill Haley and his Comets arrive in England next month for a tour, they will find that their epoch-making 1950s...
...record companies are concerned, smash hits never die, they just get re-released in albums as part of an "oldies" series. Radio stations, courting the lucrative advertising market of 18-to 34-year-olds who grew up on rock 'n' roll, carefully balance their play list of new releases with selected classics of the genre (examples: the Platters' The Great Pretender, Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven, the Everly Brothers' Bye Bye Love). New York's WOR-FM ("The Sound of Solid Gold") is one of six RKO General radio stations across the country...
...which may not amount to an outright resurgence of the old rock 'n' roll-but it is a start. And considering the potent influence of the Beatles, the release of Lady Madonna means that there can only be more...