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...back and pass catcher, Rote did not take up soccer until he was 16, and then only as an off-season conditioning program for football. Although he still lacks the finesse of foreign-born players, Rote has diligently taught himself to play the difficult striker position. Says N.A.S.L. Commissioner Phil Woosnam, a Welshman who used to be a pro in England and was among the first-and most durable-soccer missionaries in the U.S.: "Rote is really a phenomenon. He's developed skills with his head that are as good as players' anywhere in Europe...
...only with the promise of good times--it was also something like an imperial summons. Most of the old New York folky crowd's careers were floundering; they were only too happy to tour. One who desperately also wanted to come, and who never got the call, was Phil Ochs. The Rolling Thunder bus pulled out of New York without him; a month later Ochs was a suicide at 41. Ochs and Dylan had fallen out way back in 1965 over "Please Crawl Out Your Bathroom Window"; Dylan, like rock and roll, never forgets. And Rolling Thunder, while showcasing...
...jacketed figure who appears at one point in Renaldo and Clara with a guitar, saying he has to get to one more gig. "But there are no more gigs for you," says the equally-strange woman in black as she pulls him down. Maybe the black-jacketed figure is Phil Ochs. Estranged from his wife, his children in school in Vermont, beset by space-shot gurus like Ginsburg, Mr. Tambourine Man must sit in Malibu and wonder the same thing
What White Pass lacks in glitter it makes up in snow-the hamlet was created by a ski club-and Phil and Steve began skimming down the slopes at the age of seven. As they developed, they became their own best coaches. Then, at 16, Phil suffered a setback when a freak avalanche buried him to the waist and broke his right leg. One year later he fractured the leg a second time while clowning around on a children's slide. Within 18 months, however, Mahre had recovered sufficiently to place a respectable fifth in the giant slalom...
...have always skied for my own enjoyment, and that's the way it is today," insists Phil. Perhaps, but with the Olympics coming up, Phil will forgo his summer respite this year and submit to off-season training in South America and Europe. "I'm really hungry now," he confesses...