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...Trashmen. The Kinks. Goldie and the Gingerbreads. The Ripchords. Bent Fabric. Reparata and the Delrons. Barry and the Remains. The Pretty Things. The Emotions. The Detergents. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. The Guess Who's. Cannibal and the Headhunters. Them. The Orlons. The Liver-birds. Wump and the Werbles. Like something out of Malice in Wonderland, the hordes of shaggy rock 'n' roll singers thump across the land, whanging their electric guitars. Bizarre as they may be, they are the anointed purveyors of the big beat and, as never before, people are listening?all kinds of people...
...those "wheels" in an "upper-crusty, hockey-playing school for boys" (St. Paul's), and I came to Duke with the express purpose of getting away from the sham of New England education. I'm not saying that Harvard and Yale are not good schools, but as far as undergraduate work is concerned, nearly every college is a "good school...
...officials for running what may be the most brazen traffic-fine racket in the U.S. For six years, charged the jury, Greenwood Village used the public highways as a "personal toll road" that raked in $100,000 for the town by means of "a court scheme that was a sham, a mockery, a fraud and simply a system to exact tribute from unsuspecting motorists...
...Shams & Realities. Mikoyan's aloofness was understandable; his ears must still have been burning from the violent 7,000-word blast that China had directed at Russia, attacking last month's Moscow meeting of 19 pro-Soviet Communist parties. Lavishly embroidered with typical pseudo-philosophic chinoiserie, the Peking assault accused the Kremlin of engaging in "three shams and three realities: sham antiimperialism but real capitulation [to the U.S.], sham revolution but real betrayal, sham unity but real splitism." As the price for an end to polemics, Peking demanded unconditional surrender from Russia-nothing less than complete renunciation...
...cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment. The 15-acre parade ground has become an airfield, while Britain and Spain are engaged in more than a sham battle over the Rock...