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...inside, however, the crowd was treated to better concert sounds than the Dead has produced in years. The show began with a slow rendition of "Sugaree." Despite its domination by Garcia's guitar and whiny voice, the song serves well as an introduction because of its rousing and familiar refrain. Having warmed the audience, the band used a faster tempo to create unusual versions of "Cassidy" and "Me and My Uncle." The first set roamed through Dead history from the early "Too Too Minglewood Blues" and "It's All Over Now," to a new song that must be called "Fire...
...course which Jones most cherished. He was honored by being made a freeman of the burgh of St. Andrews. At the end of the ceremony, Bobby made his way through the throng of wellwishers in an electric trolley that his crippling illness forced him to use to the refrain of "Will ye no' come back again...
...Harvard's budget managers have gone one step further, and refrain even from spending all of the interest on the endowment. If capital gains are included, the University's endowment produced income equal to 11.8 per cent of its total value last year. But only 5 per cent of the income went to defray Harvard's operating costs. The rest of the interest was reinvested to safeguard Harvard's solvency for centuries to come...
...that much and not right away-and the Vietnamese now indicate the demand is negotiable. Washington, in turn, seems almost ready to accept the fact that the fate of most of the M.I.A.s will never be known. Beyond lowering its voice about the M.I.A.s, the U.S. will almost certainly refrain from blocking a new attempt to seat Hanoi in the U.N. Another early move could be to drop the existing trade embargo against Viet Nam, a measure passed by Congress last year but vetoed by Ford...
...fact of academic reaction against affirmative action. The answer to HRBSA's protest against the Lampoon, therefore, will not come by labelling the magazine as racist. Rather--to borrow from the wording of the protesters' petition--in the future the magazine's editors must be sensitive to and refrain from "Iacial insensitivity" toward the black community...