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...competition was like the history of the accordion itself-inconclusive and tinged with melancholy. But the serious contestants vindicated the proceedings with disciplined and evocative efforts on behalf of composers ranging from Bach to Hans Brehme. The winner was a Russian, Valeri Petrov. His two runners-up: Fellow Countryman Anatole Senin, who alternately coaxed from his instrument both the organlike richness and wintry delicacy necessary for Bach's organ Concerto in A-Minor, and American Pam Barker, who survived the technical terrors of Khatchaturian's Piano Concerto with impressive calm...
Life for Stolle, is seems, consists of an uninterrupted series of minor aggravations, which even when he is winning never abate. His unblemished cynicism, however, is often quite humorous, and countryman John Newcombe, who defeated him in the semifinals at Longwood last night, misses no opportunity to bring it to the surface...
...faculty noted its availability for consultation with the Administration. Dean Derek C. Bok appointed Vern Countryman, professor of Law, Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, and Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, to the new committe set up by the Corporation last night. Two law students will be selected later to join the committee...
Five hundred students and faculty crowded Ames Courtroom yesterday afternoon for a colloquium on disruptive dissent and University decision-making. Vern Countryman, professor of Law, told the audience "Any rational man could have predicted precisely what happened when he was told that police from Cambridge and Somerville, among other places, had been summoned. Those forces had been waiting for that opportunity for at least 100 years," he said...
...separate questionnaire has been sent to 100,000 of 117,000 available faculty members, Edwards said. Countryman said the objectionable questions were not included in the faculty poll...