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Four years ago I watched my brother break his leg. I have a complete instant replay in my mind. Lee is a much better skier than I am, so I followed him down a narrow cutoff and watched as he stumbled for a split-second and flew off into the trees, where a small elm broke his fall and both bones in his right calf. Lee still skis...
...that wall to lean my back on," the Berlin Philharmonic. Such is the trust between Karajan and his musicians that he often conducts with his eyes closed. "I can feel the players better," he says. He gives few entry cues and the vaguest of cutoff gestures. Explains Karajan: "Baton technique is what the people see, but it is all nonsense. The hands do their job because they have learned what to do. In the performance I forget about them. The molding comes when the orchestra and conductor come together in a sort of union. Things happen that are too delicate...
...organization cut the group's take to around $40,000, though their staff of 500 volunteers freed much of that money for other uses. Another headache for CFLT was that under House Bill 5020, introduced by Representative Piro of Somerville, 85 per cent of the people are below the cutoff point. The bill died in the Ways and Means Committee, but its tables were used as the basis for argument on question...
Inflation was the issue when Fraser, then leader of the Liberal opposition in parliament, called last fall for a cutoff of funds for the Whitlam government. An impasse ensued. Finally in November 1975, the Australian governor general, using a little known emergency provision, sacked Whitlam and replaced him with Fraser, who would remain the caretaker prime minister until elections were held next month. Throughout the campaign Whitlam argued his sacking had been unconstitutional. Although he originally won broad support with that appeal, the inflation issue triumphed in the end. A landslide deposited Fraser in the prime minister's office...
...compare spending this year with earlier, freewheeling election years, notably 1972, is like contrasting a Volkswagen with a Rolls-Royce. A little frugality is clearly in order-but not the cutoff of federal matching funds to candidates, which has sent several campaigns reeling and has all of them hurting. Most desperate is the plight of Democratic Rear-Runner Fred Harris. But more serious contenders for the nominations, such as Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Mo Udall, who failed to win early primary tests, are being severely handicapped...