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...most New Yorkers was the fact that the mayor has been making tours of the ghetto areas ever since his inauguration last January. Before last week's violence, he strode one evening among the crowds of East Harlem, played the bongo drums with a pickup front-stoop combo, was bear-hugged by a blind Negro, tried with unquenchable determination to tidy up the streets. Another day the mayor went into the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, plowed into an angry crowd that was clamoring menacingly for more schools, and wound up bobbing on men's shoulders above a cheering...
...promote what amounted to a Purcell festival. The public library and the University of Missouri sponsored a symposium on the composer's works, and the Kansas City Star published a picture of Purcell (1659?-1695) under the title Man of the Week. For one society ball, a local combo called Bill Brewer and the Nogales Brass, in 17th century costumes, played jazzy variations on Purcell themes. The result: another successful blow for culture...
Gonzalas, still with hand cramps later in the afternoon, managed to team with Brian Davis for a victory over Yale's second doubles team of McCallum and Jay Westcott. Harvard's other doubles combo of Kileff and Adelsberg, however, was eliminated in the first round by Yale's strong team of Waltz and Mike Brooks...
...sixth match, Yale's Bob Haar quickly downed Dick Appleby. Appleby, however, redeemed himself by winning the number one doubles match along with teammate Brian Davis. The two Crimson juniors, after starting slowly, edged a strong Yale combo of Brooks and Wescott...
...West. His father, an itinerant plumber, died when Barry was seven; his mother was a barmaid. Young Barry quit school at 15, "bummed around for three years" before joining the Air Force. When he got out in 1962, a buddy taught him drums and guitar, and they formed a combo. But they couldn't hack it playing honky-tonks, so Sadler tried the Army. Then came eleven rigorous months of Special Forces training that qualified him for his green beret as a combat medic. Along the way, at Fort Sam Houston, he says, "I started writing songs because...