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...trading deadline neared, Seaver had second thoughts and appealed to Mets President Lorinda de Roulet. daughter of the late Joan Whitney Payson, the club's founder. "Tom had at least four conversations with Mother," said Whitney de Roulet, 23, a Mets public relations aide. "I felt that the talks were working out well and that Tom would remain with us." Indeed, Seaver left the dugout the night before he was traded to confer by telephone with Mrs. De Roulet. An agreement was apparently worked out. But next day, Seaver heard about a story by New York News Sports Columnist...
...fear of that now. Diebenkorn's retrospective of more than 130 works, originally organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and now at New York's Whitney Museum, is as masterly a demonstration of a sensibility in growth as any living painter could set forth. He is not, as the condescending tag once read, a California artist, but a world figure. He is not an avant-gardist either, and his work keeps alluding to its sources: the color to Bonnard and Matisse, the strong, fractionally unstable drawing to Mondrian and Matisse again. Diebenkorn's best...
...year-old structure has housed personalities ranging from the professor of Geology for whom Mt. Whitney was named to Timothy Leary, who is rumored to have conducted his early experiments with hallucinogens in the Prince House's basement...
Record--9-2-1, WRIST WRESTLING WOMEN below 105 Jacqueline Whitney 105-115 Grace Belfiore 115-125 Linda Riordan 125-135 Sarah Fisk above 135 Martha Malkin...
...crash was mystifying because modern commercial aviation had apparently solved the problems that brought the DC-9 hurtling out of the sky at 150 m.p.h. The engine was one of the most reliable ever made: Pratt & Whitney's JT8D7, now used by some 2,800 aircraft all over the world. Never in 112 million hours of flying time had rain or hail caused one of these engines-let alone two-to "flame out" (quit). Federal air-safety experts discovered that the engines had ingested a great deal of water and overheated, but they were not sure of the exact...