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...California's much-discussed right wing. An impressive showing by Shell would please some oddly assorted bedfellows: Barry Goldwater and others, who argue that the only hope of the G.O.P. is in a strongly conservative stand, and practically all Democrats, who would like nothing better than to pin the Far Right label on the whole G.O.P...
...enthusiasm of the hardy horse players who jam West Virginia's Charles Town Race Course each day during the long winter: 30,000 were on hand last week. Pockets bulging with Mason jars of moonshine, Shenandoah farmers huddled over their tout sheets; Baltimore businessmen traded tips with pin-striped Washington politicians. For hundreds of other two-buck bettors from New York and Philadelphia, the day at the races had begun at 6 a.m., when they boarded special buses for a five-hour trek to the track...
...money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working for any other network. He called the $100,000 "peanuts." but he took it anyway. It represented another concession from what he calls "the hierarchy"-a general term he often uses to indicate all the "frat-pin boys," the college men with diplomas who make the ultimate rules by which he has to live. "All the buildings on Madison Avenue are conning towers," he says, and "any television executive must have one very important attribute: cologne...
About five minutes after an off-Broadway play called The Apple, by Jack Gelber, begins, a character picks up a spatula, slings blobs of paint at a transparent plastic canvas, and then kneads the goo together with a rolling pin. Peering around this cunningly messy parody of abstract art with a confiding leer, the actor announces to the playgoers: "I'll admit why I'm here-therapy...
After losing the first three out of four matches, the Crimson turned the trick with four late decisions and a pin. Fred Pereira, last year's Eastern freshman champ and Harvard's 167-pound entry, registered the only pin of the afternoon when he triumphed over Steve Dubner of F. and M. at 4:05 of the second period...