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PLAYBACK: THE APPLETREE THEATER (Verve-Forecast). Never let it be said that the Boylan brothers, John, 26, and Terence, 21, lack a sense of humor. This cycle of rock songs is an explosion of surprises, blending fey whimsy with just plain loony-bin clowning. A country corn put-on called I Been Spending Too Much Money at the Fair is a hilarious frontal attack on the Nashville sound...
...novel about an intellectual's disenchantment with contemporary life in Russia, Valeriy Tarsis mercilessly unstitched the britches of Soviet Communism-and let the whole world watch them come down. For slipping the book out of the country and having it published abroad, Tarsis was sent to the loony bin. After six months he was released and in 1965 came Ward 7 (also shipped out and published abroad), in which Tarsis made it clear that only in a madhouse can a Russian speak his mind. This time he was allowed to leave Russia. But while he was on a lecture...
...smallness by king-size feuds over their indefinite boundaries. There has been no end of dagger duels between the inhabitants of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but last week delegations from both met in a cluster of mud huts on their mutual borders. After countless cups of tea, Sheik Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi and Sheik Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum of Dubai signed a pact of federation that will give their joint population of 150,000 a common citizenship, flag, defense force and foreign policy...
Honk for Service. Whether fancy or plain, the mechanics of most drive-in churches are similar. Ushers distribute printed hymns as the cars roll in, help plug in speakers, take car-to-car collections during the service or request worshipers to place donations in a bin on the way out. Some drive-ins also pass out car-to-car wafers and grape juice for Communion. At many drive-in churches, worshipers roll down their windows and sing hymns together, get out of their cars after services for coffee and doughnuts at the snack bar. Some pastors try to talk briefly...
Such praise results from Scammon's thorough knowledge of a huge bin of sociological statistics, from which he is able to sniff out the elusive mood of the voters and come up with the right answer. Though he is obviously not always right, he has been so consistently accurate that political bosses, Presidents, Congressmen and Washington observers have come to depend on his analyses. He was, for example, one of the minuscule band of political scientists who thought Harry Truman had a chance...