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...worksongs serve a number of purposes: they supply a rhythm for work as well as making the tasks more pleasant, they offer an outlet for the prisoners' anger and frustration, and perhaps most importantly, they change the worker's frame of reference. By regulating the pace of the wor himself, rather than following the cadences of the guards, the prisoner makes the work his, when in reality...
...White House correspondent for New York radio station WOR reported yesterday that Kissinger and representatives of North Vietnam have reached an agreement on nearly all points for a cease fire in Southeast Asia...
...WOR's reporter Clifford Evans said the remaining point at issue was the future of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and "that is expected to be resolved by the resignation of Thieu who will be replaced by a three-party coalition government...
Until now, that status has been nothing to quo about. One of the most beloved legends of radio concerned Uncle Don of WOR radio who finished a broadcast and sighed à la W.C. Fields: "That should hold the little bastards." The mike had been left open, the little bastards' parents wrote in, and Uncle Don's autogiro never again set down on the roof of Bamberger's department store. In a sense, that minuscule conflict has occurred ever since. Cynicism has animated most children's shows, from Howdy Doody to Magilla Gorilla. Bozo the Clown uttered fatuities between pitches...
...show, skillfully produced by WOR's Stanley Friedman, Frederickson turns out to be as telegenic as Kildare or Casey. Greeting home viewers and a studio panel of nine with a cheery "Hello, smokers," he does not order them to stop smoking in the first program. As a matter of fact, he tells them to keep it up. The catch: they must wrap a sheet of paper and two rubber bands around their cigarette packs to make taking out a cigarette complicated. Frederickson suggests that whenever his listeners unwrap, they also log the hour, their activity and mood...