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...from the man who is largely responsible for Krupp's resurgence: Chief Executive Gunter Vogelsang, 50. Vogelsang (his name means "bird song" in German), who comes from a family of Rhineland managers, is an icily efficient financial specialist with the sturdy build and wavy hair of an idealized halfback. He learned much of his management technique in two lengthy tours of the U.S., during which he visited IBM, National Cash Register, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel and other firms. A publicity-shy man with few outside interests, he regularly puts in a 70-hour, six-day work week. For this...
...Dade County court last week and proved his point with an unusual demonstration. Glenn had been picked up in a bar during a gambling raid. If he had been guilty, he contended, he would most likely have run for it. His experience as a high school sprinter and halfback was all he needed to outdistance an ordinary flatfoot. "We'll see," said Judge Everett Dudley. Acting as starter himself, the judge presided over a 50-yard race between Glenn and Vernon James, the officer who had made the arrest. Glenn won the contest-and acquittal. Verdict: not guilty...
...those who have made it are slogans of rebellion: the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Wayne Newton . . . Wait a minute-Wayne Newton? Isn't he that big, baby-faced panda, that tenor with adenoidal arrest and the grin that seems to tell you he just made all-state halfback at Waycross High? Where did he come from...
Then there are Little Sadie and In Search of Little Sadie, two versions of the same song, in which Dylan changes harmonic direction as often as a halfback zigzagging for the goal line. Finally, there is All the Tired Horses, a poignant "original" spiritual, in which Dylan does not sing at all, just leaves it to an all-girl chorus. How's that for a new direction...
...winners was John Ballantyne of Leverett House who will battle Jim Kunder of Eliot for the 165 pound championship. Ballantyne, who starred at halfback for the Crimson football team, is expected to have his hands full with Kunder, when Lamar characterizes as "amazingly strong, a really tough...