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...SOUND is the brainchild of Editor Roy Rowan, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE. A slick monthly that sells for $2, it is aimed at the 4,000,000 people who live on or near Long Island Sound. "Our readers are genuinely affluent, educated people," Rowan says, "who share a certain location and lifestyle and have common interests." Subject matter is a mixture of leisure and concerned ecology, stressing to Sound dwellers the joy of sailing on it or swim ming in it and the horrors of bilge-blowing tankers befouling...
...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: "How does it look tonight?" "Pretty good," leered the forecaster, obviously referring to his girl friend. "I mean the weather," snorted the banana...
...replied, "I'm not nearly as histrionic as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was." He also distinguished his type of performance from Bob Hope's. That distinction was painfully manifest to viewers of Buckley's recent guest gig on Laugh-In, in which he matched limp quips with Rowan and Martin...
Afterward, some K-State students expressed resentment at the role they had felt obliged to play. Said Rowan Conrad, a graduate student: "This was a pep rally. We've been used. He came here and staged us." Donna Diehl, a junior from Salina, Kans., almost apologized: "I disapproved of the hecklers. They were dumb and weren't accomplishing anything. I found myself clapping just to show them that I didn't approve." Obviously, however, much of the cheering was an uncomplicated endorsement of the President and his message...
...segment. And waiting in the wings is Spiro Agnew. The Vice President will introduce Red Skelton's new fall show on NBC. Lest he carry this show-business gig too far, Agnew then nixed a Laugh-In stint-even though his boss did a turn with Rowan and Martin in pre-presidential days...