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...nephew of Hollywood Composer-Conductors Alfred and Lionel Newman, Randy the arranger is also a match for Randy the balladeer. In Cowboy, for example ("Cold gray buildings where a hill should be/Steel and concrete closin' in on me"), he evokes lonely saddles and scattered dust with craggy orchestral brush strokes that show a familiarity with Aaron Copland's Rodeo and Billy...
...forces into Cambodia, evidently without realizing the outcry of protest that this would provoke, he set off angry charges that he is too isolated from many sections of American opinion. Interior Secretary Walter Hickel pleaded that Nixon pay more attention to the young, complained that he got a swift brush-off from the President's staff?and reported that he had been able to see Nixon alone exactly twice since taking office 16 months before...
...they struggle to get the U.S. moon program back on schedule, scientists are anxiously seeking the cause of Apollo 13's brush with disaster. At the same time, they are still analyzing the findings of earlier lunar missions. Both efforts are paying off handsomely...
...which come into our homes every evening via the 6:30 news. We mind that we are not marching with Dr. Spock; we are the angry Establishment, the not-so-Silent Majority of mothers and fathers who mind that their sons are drafted, and for what? An honorable peace? Brush wars in Southeast Asia for the next 50 years? It is time that we parents marched also...
...airport roar of a single SST will match that of five jumbo jets. Proposed solutions to sideline noise and sonic boom have thus far been less than encouraging. Some scientists have proposed recycling jet engine exhausts to reduce noise. Others have suggested powerful electrostatic fields to ionize and brush aside air molecules before they can pile up and form boom-producing shock waves...