Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Bucharest last week played a tune that is becoming all too familiar in Eastern Europe. In scolding tones, it took Rumania's factory and office workers to task for "unexpected absences, temporary disappearances from the job, late starting and early finishing, too many conferences during working hours, and too much time spent on social activities on the job." At about the same time, Poland's Communist daily, Trybuna Ludu, warned Polish workers to lay off card playing and vodka drinking during working hours-practices that it charged are widespread. Reporting the "agony" of watching workers standing around...
Tooth & Nose. Their audience is al most entirely girls. Brothers and boy friends mostly stick to Mad, car magazines and Playboy. So teen publishers tune their message to girls between ten and 18. The leader of the pack is still Seventeen (circ. 1,300,000), but Seventeen is now 23 years old and tends to look ahead to marriage and other grown-up matters. The newer formula includes fashion, fiction, personal and beauty advice and fan articles on teen heroes-mostly recording stars. The blend varies, but all the mags strive to respond to their readers' letters...
...surname, Dumbell-Smith, so tickles John Lennon that he is writing a Beatle tune about...
...first sees his opening monologue at 5:30 p.m., about one hour before the taping begins. Some of the original concepts may have come from Carson's weekly staff conference, but the daily script is worked up by two writers who are well in tune with Carson's personality. "I edit it," says Johnny, "and I may add a few jokes of my own, or shift things around a little. But I couldn't possibly write a good six-minute monologue every night...
Even less intrepid freshmen remained in their dorms and sang "Down with Burris Young" to the tune of "We Shall Overcome," for no apparent reason...