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...girl screamed, the guy gurgled forth obscenities and the student porter dove into friendly porcelain territory locking the door behind him. Squeegee. And then there is the woman proctor who always answers the door half-dressed. Bab-O cleanser. And the people who always offer him a toke on one of their perpetual joints. And the messy sink of the person with the weak stomach. And the people with bad aim. Oh, the walls. Polishing rag. And the mirrors of those who stood too close doing battle with their blemishes. Plastic spray bottle. And those who left town without flushing...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: Bab-O, Brooms, and Toilet Bowls | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...kept mum on sex rock. In 1971, when there were complaints about such suspect drug songs as White Rabbit, Puff the Magic Dragon "and One Toke Over the Line, the FCC drew up guidelines on the airing of dope lyrics. The agency is impotent about sex, however. Explains Jason Shrinsky, the lawyer who represents 200 radio stations before the FCC: "Sex is so subjective. The FCC doesn't know what standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sex Rock | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...Scaggs 22. I Like What You Give Nolan 23. I Don't Blame You At All Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 24. Wild Horses Rolling Stones 25. Mercy Mercy Me Marvin Gaye 26. Ain't No Sunshine Bill Withers 27. Bring the Boys Home Freda Payne 28. One Toke Over the Line Brewer and Shipley 29. When I'm Dead and Gone McGuiness Flint 30. You Are Everything Stylistics 31. Mandolin Wind Rod Stewart 32. Got to Be There Michael Jackson 33. Get On Up, Get Into It, Get Involved James Brown 34. Do Me Right Detroit Emeralds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tops of 1971 | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

Pioneering Po Toke. Oozies are the natives who train, ride and care for working elephants. Bandoola's oozie was called Po Toke. At first Po Toke had little to do. Elephants mature slowly, take five years to be weaned, another eleven before they can begin to pull and haul heavy teak logs from the hills to the rivers. Author Williams gives Po Toke credit for two pioneering firsts that changed the course of elephant training: 1) Bandoola was the first Burmese work elephant reared from birth in captivity; 2) he was trained with kindness. Previous trainers captured grown elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beasts as Heroes | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...World War II and helped build the Burma Road. His end came suddenly and mysteriously. One day in 1945, Author Williams found him dead, with a 30-caliber bullet through his brain. To this day, he does not know Bandoola's killer, but he suspects that Po Toke, aged, ailing and unwilling to trust his beloved Bandoola to another oozie, fired the fatal shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beasts as Heroes | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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