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...want to stop. Whether it is Rhodesia, Angola or Lebanon, they want someone to pay them and point them. The bizarre rock star David Bowie put words in their mouths in a frightening ditty in 1972: "It seems the peacefuls stopped the war/Left generals squashed and stifled/But I'll slip about again tonight/'Cause they haven't taken back my rifle...
Just to make certain that there are no embarrassing slip-ups?28 minutes of silence is acceptable, perhaps even desirable, in a presidential debate, but the Super Bowl is serious business?NBC Executive Producer Scotty Connal a month ago called together the 87 members of his game crew for training sessions. (The remaining 78 will handle the pre-game show only.) By kickoff, they will work together as cohesively as the teams on the field, and maybe a lot more so. As a shining example, the television crew will have the sacrifice of CBS Sportscaster Jack Whitaker, who dieted...
...think John Prine would know. It was the strangling to death in a claustrophobic small town, the desperation of it--and not some quiet desperation, either. It was as real and loud as the shout from Elvin Anderson's yelping GT-60 8.20s as he went slip-sliding into that stationwagon. But home, for me and for Prine, is a place of contradictions, a place where true natural beauty can give away around the next turn to the ugly slash of a strip mine, where the people seem more alive and you can get killed as easy as next...
Walter Leonard has allowed major appointments and promotion in associate and assistant deanships to slip by without regard to AA. He has been silent on the controversial non-tenure of Afro-American scholar Ephraim Issac. He has been given credit for increasing the number of Law School blacks (Crimson, Oct. 5, 1976) with no mention of the student activism which initiated and supported increased admissions. Moreover, having gone on record innumerable times criticizing the University's failure to improve the status of women and minorities, he has yet to do anything to turn the trend. Most likely Leondard's office...
...Soviets in a park or on a street, he might have been seen. Said the U.S. official: "He tried to do it the safe way by tossing the packet to them in the dark. He never figured they'd fumble it. The Soviets let an intelligence bonanza slip through their fingers...