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Ford seems to be a fanatic on conditioning, a stickler on crisp passing and a perfectionist. His coaching style on the field seems to show daring and a willingness to experiment...
Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball, must dream about Septembers like this. All too often the coming of crisp evenings means limp competition -pennant races already decided, games being played for the sake of the schedule. Last week, for a change, there were tight races in three of the four major league divisions, providing more drama than any September has seen since baseball expanded...
...favorite surface, though that did not stop her from taking the Wimbledon crown this summer. But King's grit could reassert itself, and a number of foreign competitors, including Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Russia's Olga Morozova, are around to keep the action crisp...
Onstage, wearing numerated football jerseys, work shirts and crisp khakis, C. S. N. & Y. work energetically through a grueling 3½-hour set. In between numbers the group confers in a football huddle, selecting songs by collective whim but carefully allowing each artist a chance to display his own material. Packed tightly together in front of the stage, teen-agers too young to have been concertgoers in 1970 sway in a mass and sing every word of Carry On. Older C. S. N. & Y. fans occupy stadium bleacher seats, many with small children...
...skillful pastiche. If hardly innovative, it is easy to listen to and, at key moments, appropriately bravura. Never mind such questions as why Egk chose the blues to evoke a Caribbean mood, instead of a music more indigenous to the West Indies. Music Director Igor Buketoff led a crisp, idiomatic performance that drew the most from Egk's acrobatic orchestral score and made the blues passages seem natural, less like interludes. As Jeanne, Newcomer Barbara Hendricks from Little Rock, Ark., displayed a ravishing lyric soprano voice. Karl Brock not only handled the rigorous tenor lead role of Christoph with...