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...political leaders to a marathon Sunday meeting to discuss the fate of Hanrahan. After heated argument, the caucus decided that Hanrahan had to go. Next day, Cook County's 80 ward and township committeemen met to vote to replace him on the ticket with Raymond Berg, chief judge of the traffic court. They had little time to make the change official. If Berg was going to qualify, they had to have about 6,000 names on petitions by 5 o'clock that afternoon. City business was ignored as jobholders scurried around with petitions, some bearing numerous forged signatures...
...meet began with B.C. sweeping the weight, 35-16. The Crimson did not even qualify a participant. Harvard swept the second event, the pole vault, with Jim Kleiger, Ed Baskauskas, and Dan Berg taking the first three places...
Zappa's score for the film utilizes the entire orchestra most of the time and owes quite a lot to Stravinksy and Berg, as well as Kurt Weill. Although much of the music is impressive, particularly such numbers as "This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich" and "Penis Dimension," it is also just plain ugly. The words to these numbers are real funny, if you go in for Zappa's type of humor, but they are frequently inaudible, so it is advisable to listen to the album carefully before seeing the movie...
...mood at Eliot House last night was one of quiet satisfaction. "We were counting on sweeping it," athletic secretary Doug Berg said. His house has won every intramural contest this fall except for two football games...
...repertory-from Debussy and Stravinsky to Webern and Olivier Messiaen-is untouchable. Next week he will start taking small groups of instrumentalists to Greenwich Village to proselytize among the hip young (TIME, Feb. 22). He also intends to devote two series of programs to the music of Liszt and Berg, both of whom he feels are essential to the understanding of contemporary music. Beyond that, the new director will talk controversially on various subjects, as TIME Music Critic William Bender discovered in an interview last week...