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When a rock superstar turns up his nose at breast of pheasant or Maine lobster, Stewardesses Sandy Cronin and Candy Burton-wearing bodystockings -prepare his favorite dish. Bob Dylan gets his cherished vegetable casseroles, washed down by Chateau Mouton Rothschild '64. For Led Zeppelin, there is Thai food. Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, demands branch water from an arcane spring in the Ozarks for his bourbon. The Allman Brothers get collard greens and Coors beer. For British groups, there is Irish ale and a stock of their favorite Dunhill and Rothman cigarettes...
...letter Monday, the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) urged Tufts officials to accept conciliation plans offered by the EEOC. NOW recommended the action to Tufts President Burton C. Hallowell and members of the Board of Trustees...
...decision came after a statement from Burton L. Dreben '49, dean of GSAS, who said that if students could not prepare adequately for classes without spending more than their paid time, they should work fewer hours. "It's your conscience, but I am not going to be able to pay you to do more work," he said...
Cleopatra (1963). When a studio spends $40 million to make a movie, can it be all bad? Yes. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor fell in love on the set of this movie. That's about all they did on the set. At least this Turkey features a cast of thousands, for those who like that kind of thing. (This is part one. Part two is Monday at 9 p.m.) Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
Perhaps because its sun-blasted emptiness is so different from their cozily crowded, fog-shrouded island, the trackless desert has always attracted Englishmen. A straight line leads from Sir Richard Burton crossing the Arabian desert in 1853 and Lawrence of Arabia down to Geoffrey Moorhouse. Burton had a simple thirst for the exotic. Lawrence was a complex mystic. Moorhouse, who left Nouakchott, Mauritania, in October of 1972 heading east into the Sahara, is a fortyish ex-journalist. In challenging the desert, he was intent on confronting his own fears and what he took to be personal cowardice...