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...over Broadway. People from the Peace Demonstration are depositing money and food in a bucket at the bottom of a rope. Each time we haul it up and re-lower it we include I.D.'s for people who want to get into the campus. A remarkable number of cars toot their support, and when a bus-driver pulls over to wave to us a victory sign ten people nearly fall off the ledge for ecstasy...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Whose coauthor, Reed Smoot, inspired Ogden Nash's 1930 poem "Invocation": Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh root-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverent occiput . . . Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Voice from the Silent Center | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...coffee and doughnuts at the snack bar. Some pastors try to talk briefly with churchgoers as they roll out through the gates; the Rev. James Wallace Hamilton of Pasadena Community Church in St. Petersburg, Fla., even encourages his mobile congregation to greet visiting preachers with "a gentle, dignified horn toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Drive-In Devotion | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...recent years, summer music has moved steadily indoors for air-conditioned comfort. But this season more and more Americans are defying chiggers and heat for the trill, the toot and the oompah-pah of old-fashioned outdoor summer band concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Trills, Toots & Oompah-pahs | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

Defining Limits. The evening contained only two recognizable musical moments. At one point, the hornist inexplicably quoted a swatch of Tchaikov sky's Symphony No. 5, and the possibly unhinged trombonist retired to an adjoining terrace to toot 76 Trombones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Quick, Karl, the Potentiometer! | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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