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Jack undergoes a complex metamorphosis. He adopts the appearances of normality, a hair cut and the most elegant Victorian dress. (We're in the 1950s, so if this seems a little odd, we can chalk it up to that tolerated margin.) Actually, Jack has come to believe that the year is 1888, the year of Jack the Ripper--the year of Jack Guerney, whose trick is to study given circumstance and manipulate it to fit with the new delusion...
...nation's last major privately owned urban-transit line, O. Roy Chalk's 1,099-bus D.C. Transit System, Inc., is about to pass into public ownership. President Nixon late last month signed a bill authorizing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to acquire deficit-plagued D.C. Transit and three smaller suburban bus companies. W.M.A.T.A., a public agency created in 1967 to plan and develop the capital's proposed $2.98 billion rapid rail transit system, will pay at least $50 million for the package, and will spend a like amount on modernization...
...have never been able to figure out why Bogart and Appice. If they were steeped in the Young Rascals--NYC lounge tradition, we could chalk it up to white soul, but they aren't. Maybe it's magic. Anyway, BBA is not the holding action Beck claims his two previous bands were. They are new to each other, though, and their Boston show Tuesday last opened with a vague feeling of indirection. The song was new, and, as a show opener, had a definite warm-up feeling to it, while making sure the audience recognized Beck's tendencies towards...
Unfortunately, the valley's treasure may also soon be lost. It is now being threatened by an onslaught of tourists and souvenir hunters who use chalk or abrasive stone on the engravings to make them stand out more clearly for snapshots. Some vandals have even hacked engravings out of rock faces or carted off entire slabs. "If this keeps up," De Lumley warns, "in 50 years the Valley of Marvels, the most remarkable cultural treasure of the Alps, will have been destroyed...
...start the Ivies on their merry way. Easton vs. Philadelphia, C'mon. But on the other hand, let's look at it this way. Penn has smashed Colgate, 35-28, in a scrimmage and in return. Lafayette was equally smashed by Colgate last week, 33-14. So let's chalk it up. Seven plus 19 equals 26. The Quakers and coach Harry Gamble then get four extra points for getting Don Clune past the Penn Admission Committee -- no small task. Hence an impressive Penn opener...