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Stand-ins. Wallace's political future is unpredictable. Last week was certainly the crest of his ill-planned but impressive drive through the primaries. All through the spring, in fact, Wallace has had the air of a man astonished by his own successes; with his ramshackle organization, one basic, evangelical speech and paper buckets to take up the collection, his victories have left him wondering whether he should not have attempted more. There were no primary states left in which he had arranged extensive campaigns even before the shooting-although last week from his hospital room he ordered...
...typical Tartan gang member is Jim Tipping, a long-haired lad of 18 who has a crest of Protestant banners tattooed upon his scarred right arm. The scar is a relic of an I.R.A. gunshot wound that Tipping suffered while walking down a Belfast street six weeks ago. Tipping's gang, the Shankhill Tartans, has hundreds of members, who spend much of their time lolling on street corners and shouting anti-Catholic slogans on Saturday afternoons. They were reared in an atmosphere of sectarian bitterness and bigotry, and their attitudes show it. "I hate them," Tipping says...
...match, held in Dallas, was more than a personal and profitable triumph for the "old man" of the professional tennis circuit; it was a vicarious victory for all middle-aged athletes who are over the hill or who never even got to the crest. Rosewall (who is nicknamed "Muscles" because of his slight build) won the $50,000 first prize by refusing to sag in a match that was wearing on both body and mind. The five sets lasted for a stamina-sapping three hours and 37 minutes, and the last two sets were decided by the nerve-jangling tiebreaker...
...after Moondance: a more joyous, tighter, harder rock music, like his early music, but much more secure lyrically. There have been two solid albums since Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir and Tupelo Honey, and Van Morrison has become immensely popular. He came to the Orpheum on the crest of another change. He moved to California from Woodstock, New York, made a home in Marin County, and documented the change on Tupelo Honey. The most consistent aspect of Van and his music is his ability and willingness to change both...
...smelters, 84% of its rubber factories, 78% of its chemical industry, 77% of its electrical-apparatus business and 73% of the transportation-equipment industry-indeed, 90% of all Canadian plants that employ 5,000 or more workers. Many a Canadian suburbanite begins his day by brushing his teeth with Crest, grabbing a cup of Maxwell House instant coffee, hopping into a Mustang and heading for work at, say, Du Pont of Canada...