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That day a noon appointment for Schlesinger and Dinitz to discuss supplies for Israel was canceled, say the Kalbs, because Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements, "a wealthy Texas drilling contractor with close ties to the oil industry, had apparently persuaded [Schlesinger] that he needed more information about U.S. inventories before...
The Sugar Bowl battle between Alabama and Notre Dame for the national championship was so frantic that ABC'S Howard Cosell could barely get in a sesquipedalian word. The two psyched-up teams ran off 160 plays, compared with a more leisurely pro average of about 120. The pros...
THE FIRST SIDE of Then and Now is apparently "Now." It includes a pretty version of Townes Van Zandt's "If I Needed You," a fairly conventional love song that Doc and Merle's performance and a restrained string arrangement by Chuck Cochran turn from maudlin into lively. The Watsons...
The second side comprises a set of older songs, the most interesting of which is a rendition of "Frankie and Johnny," a chance for Doc, Merle, Vassar Clements, and dobro player Norman Blake to show off on brief solos. Again, in this set, the punctuation of the music with brief...
The people playing with the Dirt Band are near-legendary--Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Earle and Randy Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Jimmy Martin, and so on. Vassar Clements, whose fiddling steals the show almost whenever he appears, reveals the clear distinction between a virtuoso fiddler and a fiddler who just moves...