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...Piggy. The yippies want merely to mock the system. During a five day "Festival of Life," they plan to nominate a pig named Pigasus for President. The Chicago police department did not see much humor in the idea. The cops threw seven yippies and their candidate into a paddy wagon when they appeared in Civic Center Plaza. Pigasus was carted, squealing all the way, to the Humane Society...
...installations lavished upon it. "His district has prospered from his service on the military committees like a tick on a fat dog." But the authors wander astray when they maintain that he is "America's top security risk" because of his drinking problem. He has gone on the wagon since he became committee chairman...
...flawless acting was turned in by none other than Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse. Seems Morse was seated next to a movie executive on a recent plane ride, who suggested the Senator would make the perfect saddle man for a bit in a new film, Paint Your Wagon. Morse was delighted, even suggested the extra little business of standing in the saddle instead of just sitting there to deliver his five-word line. "His voice was good and strong," says Logan, "but of course, he's had practice in that...
...Washington, D.C., has a Showmobile and a smaller "music wagon," staffed largely by teenagers, that feature youthful amateur talent from around the city. Their daily performances at first were closely watched by precautionary groups of plainclothes cops, but they now draw peaceful audiences of up to 1,000 per show. They are operated by the District's recreation department...
...Ford division more or less singlehanded. Something of a Medici of management, Frey reads Russian and French as well as Ward's Automotive Reports, used to revel in running all phases of sales, down to seeing that such personal notions as stereo-tape systems and two-way station wagon doors were included among the "better ideas"-as the slogan calls them-in his cars...