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...identities," he says. "We could have called ourselves the Eternal Spinach, but we used our names instead -it made us the Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith of rock." Crosby once belonged to the Byrds, Nash was a member of the Hollies, and Stills and Young came from the Buffalo Springfield. Each man in C. S. N. & Y. was a skilled guitarist and singer-songwriter capable of rilling an entire album with original tunes. At one point Neil Young, who felt that the group was not using enough of his songs on C. S. N. & Y. records, stopped speaking to Stills...
Jack Kemp, 38, played quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills before he decided to call some political plays as a Republican Congressman from the Buffalo, N.Y., suburbs. An outspoken conservative, Kemp was narrowly elected to Congress in 1970, won re-election two years later with 73% of the vote. A staunch environmentalist and strong national security advocate, he introduced 115 bills in Congress during his first term. "Problems are not problems; they are opportunities," Kemp says...
Joseph S. Mattina, 41. A high degree of visibility distinguishes this county court judge. Four years after his 1965 appointment to the Buffalo city court, Republican Mattina won a ten-year term on the Erie County (N.Y.) court with bipartisan support. Refusing offers to run for statewide office, Mattina prefers to continue attacking root problems of urban society, among them alcoholism and unfair employment practices. A vigorous crusade against drug abuse has carried him from lecture halls to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury clinic, where he spent one vacation as a volunteer worker...
...story's people, all outlandish, pop from the author's head fully jig-sawed. There is old Geraty, a buffalo-like giant addicted to Japanese horseradish, who once ran a Chinese pornographic movie parlor. There is the former Baron Kikuchi, a Japanese who converted to Judaism and became a rabbi. Quin appears as a shadowy cuckold who ran a circus in Shanghai at the war's outset and orchestrated the murder of its entire company during a performance. Maeve Quin, his glad-glanded wife, is an aerialist who made her final somersault into the lights with...