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...Less Rock and Roll). - Rita Coolidge, 26, is a Baptist preacher's daughter raised in Nashville, Tenn. She began singing as a pre-schooler in Daddy's choir, later polished her technique on four-part harmony in a Memphis jingle factory, learned country-rock as a back-up singer with Delaney & Bonnie. Such rock celebrities as Leon Russell, Stephen Stills and Ry Cooder were happy to play back-up on her new (and first) A & M album -perhaps because of the sensational way she can bend a slow romantic ballad to a voice of pure honey and magnolia...
...Kennedy in 1961 in response to a proposal from General Maxwell Taylor that the U.S. dispatch 8,000 troops to Viet Nam, ostensibly to work on flood relief. Taylor's recommendation included using the troops to commit American prestige in Viet Nam, to shore up morale and provide a back-up for the South Vietnamese army and to serve as an advance force for a wider American involvement. The cable argued against the recommendations, reasoning that the U.S. could still walk away from Viet Nam at this early stage, but should Taylor's proposals be carried out, Washington would...
...only exception: their wives). Others, such as NASA scientists, must brief them from behind glass partitions in their sealed-off crew quarters. With the quarantine, NASA hopes to avert another Apollo 13-type measles crisis, which nearly caused a last-minute cancellation of the mission after one of the back-up astronauts contracted the disease on a preflight visit to Houston and exposed the prime crew...
After displaying a bulldozing running attack all year long, Dallas could generate only a meager 104 yds. on the ground; Baltimore's premier quarterback Johnny Unitas completed only three out of nine passes before retiring with injured ribs. Earl Morrall, his back-up man and another veteran, did little better with seven...
Burns described the panel of lawyers as a "back-up brain trust" which would assist Davis's defense. He said that no special criteria had been employed in the selection of panel members...