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...manager. "He was always wary. But then one day he called up and said he was 'behind schedule.'" Soon Nemperor Records executive Nat Weiss saw the singer open a show at Trax. Then New York Times critic John Rockwell predicted "huge success, and soon." Both Nemperor contract and public acclaim came shortly thereafter. Forbert made his schedule...
...order to make his antievolution position crystal clear, thereby exposing himself to national (and historical) ridicule. And there was Oveta Culp Hobby who, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1955, explained the shortage of the new Salk polio vaccine: "No one could have foreseen its great acclaim." And there is always Richard Nixon, the apostle of perfect clarity, who at times has seemed hell-bent on clarifying himself out of existence...
McDermott's problem in November will be defeating King County [Seattle] Executive John Spellman, 53, who narrowly bested two rivals in the Republican primary. Spellman, a plodding campaigner, lost to Ray in 1976, but since then has won wide acclaim for completing Seattle's domed stadium, the Kingdome, with no cost overruns. He is now considered a formidable opponent...
DIED. George R. Stewart, 85, prolific novelist and scholar of literature, American history, forestry and meteorology who received acclaim for his "weather novels" Storm and Fire; in San Francisco. A professor of English for 38 years at the University of California at Berkeley, Stewart battled the regents over the "nonCommunist loyalty oath" required of faculty in 1950, and later documented the experience in The Year of the Oath. Also recognized as an authority on onomastics, the science of names, he noted in American Place-Names that Deathball Rock, Ore., commemorated "an unsuccessful attempt to make biscuits...
...next few days, Kennedy will sail the waters off the Cape in the Victura and the Curragh. He will walk the uncrowded beach with his mother Rose and play tennis with his sister-in-law Ethel. He will savor the world acclaim from papers and television about his convention speech, and he will probably eat more ice cream than he should and have an extra daiquiri or two. He will luxuriate in his patrician world far from the American deprived whom he has championed, a long distance from the middle class whose stresses he says he perceives. Ted Kennedy...