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...took a lot of nerve to advocate the use of pacifiers. After the war, the pacifier (a little plastic disc with a nipple on the end which babies suck to calm their nerves) was out of fashion for obvious reasons. But Spock, who has never let chauvinists or militarists bother him, pushed for social acceptance of the pacifier--clearly one of the major reasons we have so many pacifists around...
Though Robbie D, a skinny, goateed chap who looks vaguely like a molting broom, is only 20, most of the rock jockeys are pushing 30. Their natural habitat is the "jock booth," where, surrounded by stacks of 45-r.p.m. records, they suck on lemons, spray their throats, turn the treble up and the bass down, and wail. During an average three-hour program, they cram in six five-minute newscasts, twelve station breaks, 35 records and 54 commercials...
...does mainland standards like Coin' Out of My Head and latter-day island songs like You'll Never Find Another Kanaka [Native Boy] Like Me. Obligatory at every show is a song called Suck 'em Up, meaning "Bottoms up." When Don moans "Ah ha," the whole house raises $2.50 mai tais and belts along "Suck 'em up." "The more you drink and spend," he quips, "the more chance we get our boy. land back...
...still unable to fathom, was detoured from its customary west-to-east path across the U.S. and whooshed over Alaska and the Canadian Northwest, driving masses of refrigerated air down from the Arctic and over the East Coast. The jet stream's unusual northerly course also helped suck the tornado belt up from its more normal Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri route, causing a disastrous twister in Chicago's suburbs. Meanwhile, the southern jet stream, after an exceptionally cold, wet run over California, dried out and warmed up so thoroughly as it crossed the Continental Divide that it left huge...
...Washington, D.C. Happily, savings again are flowing into S & Ls, after huge withdrawals earlier in the year. But the brightening mortgage outlook could quickly fade, S & L leaders agree, if the Treasury goes ahead with its tentative plans to issue a 5% supersavings bond, which would suck money away from thrift institutions...