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...billboards go, it's a real stopper-a huge closeup photo of a pimply faced, wild-haired hippie, mounted on a ghastly yellow background and bearing the message, in red and black letters: BEAUTIFY AMERICA, GET A HAIRCUT. The poster has lately appeared on roadsides across the nation, generating no end of speculation about who or what is behind the campaign...
Sophomore Larry Terrell, filling in for Nayar at number one, was edged out, 3-2, in a heart-stopper by McGill's Peter Martin. Terrell had the Canadian inter-collegiate champ down 14-8 in the last game before Martin staged a brilliant rally...
Pigeons & Pornography. Even in summer, the suitcase should contain warm as well as summer clothing, plenty of color film to be developed back in the U.S., a rubber sink stopper (many of the sinks are plugless), toilet paper (public washrooms don't provide any), a small short-wave radio for picking up the BBC or Radio Free Europe (the only English-language sources of non-Party-lining news) and an assortment of gifts. Tipping is officially not allowed, and many Russians are insulted by the offer of money. But Intourist guides gratefully accept paperback editions of Hemingway, Faulkner...
Batting champion Matty Alou specializes in infield hits, Bill Mazeroski and Gene Alley are the best doubleplay combination in baseball history, and catcher Jim Pagliaroni once played for the Red Sox. The Corsairs don't have a stopper or a dependable reliever, but their staff is competent and lovable: Woody Fryman is a tobacco farmer, Bob Veale is suing Sport Magazine for a million dollars, "Deacon" Law could be mayor of Pittsburgh or Meridian, Idaho, with no contest, Dennis Ribant is a Met who might make good, Elroy Face ... To understand why baseball will always be the national pastime, tune...
...Beck is another standout. Whether all but eating two fantastically pornographic slave girls in "Don't Forget Your Sugar Daddy," or prancing through a rather uninspired ditty called "Daughter and Dad," which he and Denny transform into a formidable show-stopper, Beck epitomizes that antic self-congratulation which is the hallmark of a Top Banana...