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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well here I sit, all-alone with a broken heart I took three bennies, and my semi-truck won't start...

Author: By Mickey Kaus, | Title: Commander Cody | 11/2/1972 | See Source »

...cover. A color drawing of a good-looking oil tanker graces the front while funky old trucks of all varieties loll like disgruntled catfish around the borders of the back. The choice of songs seems right on schedule too, from "Looking at the World Through A Windshield" to "Semi-Truck," which features the lines...

Author: By Mickey Kaus, | Title: Commander Cody | 11/2/1972 | See Source »

...demonstrators carrying anti-L.B.J. signs at his rallies-forcing them to drop their boards and scratch. Democrat Leo Marshall, seeking a seat on Pennsylvania's New Castle County Council in 1966, was the victim of someone who sent a flatbed truck carrying a black band and black semi-nude go-go girls into a conservative white ethnic neighborhood, noisily urging his election. He lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Good Old Dirty Tricks? | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...recent Nixon satires. I mile de Antonio's video production Milhouse and An Evening with Richard Nixon, a theater piece by Gore Vidal. These "comedies" do more than avoid disentangling the real Nixon from his popular caricature--the self-repressed, ambitious, and self-righteous liar. They construct a semi-comic figure entirely from Nixon's own words. In this sense, they are black comedy. Our laughter barely hides our disgust. It is the President of the United States, not an impersonator, who seems ludicrous. Our sense of his ineptitude only underscores our disbelief at his complete lack of honesty...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Nixon | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

George Putnam skippered a Harvard crew to victory in a semi-final heat at the Eastern Sloop Championships at New London on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Putnam Crew in ESC Finals; 'Cliffe 2nd for Manlab Trophy | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

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