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...might edit tapes from assorted places to make a point. The morning after the last election, Osgood assembled several victory speeches to demonstrate how similar such addresses are regardless of candidate and locale. When he does choose to cover a straight story, like an election, he applies a twist. Sometimes he does a show in doggerel, as when Speaker Carl Albert declined Spiro Agnew's request for a House investigation into the charges against him. Concluded Osgood: "You accuse me of just doing nothing/ It's not true, as a matter of fact/ I am far, far beyond...
...catches and downed balls are prohibited. On punt returns, even downfield blocking is illegal. The receiver is protected only by a mandatory 5-yd. neutral zone before he catches the ball. After that the runner is either obliterated or he makes a mad dash for daylight. In another novel twist called the rouge play, any punt, kickoff, or quick kick scores a point for the kicking team if the ball reaches the opponents' end zone...
...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators...
There he is, between reels of the late show on TV, popping out from among the commercials for cars and permanent eyelashes-Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, promoting a mail-order five-LP collection called A Library of the Greatest Musical Masterpieces. A twist of the dial and perched on a ledge overlooking Tuscan bell towers is Louis Prima delivering a husky-voiced hustle for a two-LP anthology of pop songs titled Love Italian Style. And isn't that-yes! It's Chubby Checker, coyly reminding viewers that he "used to do a little thing called...
...Vietnam's success in resisting the U.S. military has encouraged other Third World peoples and given birth to an anti-imperialist movement within this country. Disheartening events like the overthrow of the Allende government are certainly great defeats, but they are not permanent. The United States cannot continue to twist the lives, thwart the aspirations and deny the humanity of the majority of the people--brothers and sisters--who share this planet with...