Word: circuits
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...neighborhood of Toronto. But south of the 49th parallel, where his songs are performed by such singers as Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, he has remained chiefly a popular figure in the folk underground. Until recently, at least. Now he is getting numerous engagements in the club circuit; during the past few months he has performed at Manhattan's Bitter End, Los Angeles' Troubadour, and San Francisco's Fillmore auditorium. Is he about to wander into popular success in the U.S. too? Lightfoot shrugs. "The public gets around to you," he says...
Yale and Harvard both have 6-0 records, including 3-0 marks on the Ivy circuit, and there are two games left before their showdown. Penn dropped out of a share of the League lead with its loss to Harvard...
...only the most minor ailments during the 260-hour eight-minute flight. Some of the spacecraft windows fogged over for still-unexplained reasons; an oxygen-flow sensor misbehaved and unnecessarily flashed a red light; batteries did not recharge as fast or as fully as expected; current overloads twice tripped circuit breakers, cutting off electrical power until the crew reset the breakers. The otherwise flawless performance was a tribute to the corrective program instituted by NASA and North American Rockwell Corp., Apollo's prime contractor, after the disastrous Cape Kennedy fire that killed three astronauts in January...
...hearing in circuit court, Damaschke was surprised to find that Judge Halford Streeter was not at all impressed by such precedents. Streeter was far more concerned about the fact that Scott's Negroid characteristics proved that Damaschke was not the boy's father -even though no one claimed that he was. More important, the judge made it clear that racial integration is not particularly popular in Port Huron, where the Damaschkes live. "I am a politician," said Streeter. "I get around the county, or I wouldn't have been elected three times, and I know...
Last week a Virginia Circuit Court of Appeals convicted a member of the Big Stone Gap congregation, Roscoe Mullins, 50, of violating a state law against handling snakes "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." (Another defendant, Kenneth Short, was acquitted of the same charge.) The prosecution claimed that Mullins had also handled the snakes at the service, thus endangering other worshipers. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine. Released on $2,000 bond, Mullins said that he would appeal all the way to the Supreme Court...