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Miami's Henry King Stanford: The demands on a university president are limitless. A man comes into the presidency like a bride: everybody's cheering him, the honeymoon is on. Then he reaches the burnt-toast stage in the romance as he has to make decisions and people become disaffected. Yet he can't run a university out of his hip pocket any more. He has to have a kind of radar, always sending out signals to see what bounces back...
...STAGE at the Boston Tea A local group called Quill has just finished its good-to-dreary slot with a bang-up African number. The Jeff Beck Group now quickly marches in, Mick Waller at the drums, Jeff Beck prophetically brandishing his guitar. The singer Rod Stewart in burnt sienna flush velours pants that fit tight, an ornate silver cross hanging from his neck, has slender features and a bouffant hair-do and an impish grin. Ron Wood, on bass guitar, stakes out his area and the music flares like a newly struck match. Stewart sings "Rock me baby/Keep-on-rocking-me-baby/ Rock...
...reality of violence in the ghetto is being dramatized; last month Washington's Gallery of Modern Art put on view 66 pieces of sculpture assembled by Los Angeles Artists Noah Purifoy and Judson Powell from three tons of charred wood, stained plaster, bent wire, broken dolls and burnt-out machinery culled from the wreckage of the 1965 Watts riots...
...supporting players, including Tom Courtenay as a psychotic British agent and Per Oscarsson as his junkie Russian counterpart, hopelessly in love with the heroin. Fortunately, they give Aspic some flavor as it moves toward a credibly tragic end, when Harvey suspects the game is up and utters the burnt-out lament: "I feel like a whore in a creaking...
...some political matter. Few attended the gatherings. Their first meeting," and here her voice, hard, almost metallic, paused. She waited, then thrusting her steely-grey head forward, she went on, "At the first meeting there was a screaming mob outside the building. After the meeting the building was burnt down....People said that women," Mrs. Spafford told, "had weak feminine brains incapable of serious thinking." She received a generous round of laughter from the ballroom...