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Virginia (12): Nixon, unless Wallace draws away enough G.O.P. votes to allow Humphrey to squeak...
That kind of power gives Detroit the ability to spot other teams runs and still bounce back. In 35 games this season, they have either trailed or been tied in the seventh inning or later, and still managed to squeak out a victory. In 27 games, they have scored the winning run in their last turn at bat. A tight defense, enough depth to permit platooning of players, and a strong bullpen crew that has saved 21 games so far, have all figured strongly in Detroit's push toward the pennant...
Dark Shadows also has a recorded repertory of 3,000 sound effects and a few tricks that go back to radio days. The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
...Rats squeak, cows...
...minutes of rapping can lead him anywhere. He philosophizes, he confesses, he imitates commercials. But after a while he catches himself. "What?!?" he'll squeak, "What kind of rap is that for a freekie oldie show." And he's off into another song...