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...workshops will hopefully be able to produce a working document to be used in alleviating the situation of mass misery, hunger, and suffering in Roxbury and the rest of the country," Rev. Virgil A. Wood, one of the organizers of the Tribe, said yesterday...
...once looked likely. The biggest reason for the improvement, however, is the aggressive direction that Chrysler is getting from the new management of President Riccardo, 46, and Group Vice President Eugene A. Cafiero, 44, who is in charge of auto operations. They took over in January, when former President Virgil Boyd moved up to vice chairman and Chairman Lynn Townsend relinquished control of day-to-day operations; Townsend now concentrates on long-term policy decisions...
Some 2,000,000 Americans suffer from the same speech impediment that tripped the distinguished tongues of Demosthenes, Aesop, Aristotle, Virgil and Winston Churchill. Demosthenes, so the story goes, cured himself of stuttering by stuffing his mouth with pebbles and competing with the roar of the surf. He may have had something. A Detroit physician, Dr. Marvin E. Klein, 33, reports remarkable results with an instrument that fills the stutterer's ears with the sound of a waterfall whenever he opens his mouth...
...Lingle Mungo is the tongue-twisting title of a litany of 38 baseball players whose names, recited in unison to a slightly Latin beat, are alleged to evoke peals of campy hilarity. Everyone from Virgil Trucks to Johnny Kucks is lauded by Singer Dave Frishberg. Mungo, the titular hero of the piece, was a 1930s Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who now spends most of his time fishing and golfing in Pageland, S.C. "I think it's great," he says. "It's the first publicity I've had since I retired...
...DESCENT to Hell, Virgil tells us, is easy. It's getting back out that's a problem. Once the first half of this concert had plunged itself into the lower depths, nothing could lure it back. As the gastroenterologists settled back into their seats, and the balcony dwellers returned from the bar, a sudden portent of doom came over me. A portent, as it turns out, eminently justified...