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...signs of this new rock is its emphasis on intricate rhythmic patterns of voices. The Family Stone manage to carry these off on both fast and slow songs but Chaka was successful mainly on the up-tempo numbers. Gilbert Moses on lead guitar contributes deft Cropper-like touches, and the band generally held together well--particularly on a superb sliding easy version of "My Girl." This new city-soul sound is, of course, heavily influenced by Booker T., and Chaka showed this in its obvious delight and skill at playing "funky instrumentals...
Angelvin came a cropper on a 1962 visit to the U.S. He had built a minor Paris reputation as a television M.C. and animator of the popular Tele-Paris TV show. After obtaining a month's leave of absence from the French network, Angelvin sailed for New York accompanied by his large Buick sedan. Narcotics agents, already interested in Angelvin's connections with a suspected drug dealer named Scaglia, voyaged with him; on landing, Angelvin was accused of having illegally imported 50 kilos of heroin hidden in the car. Before his trial, Angelvin was held as a material...
...always in a spot of bother, in one political situation or another," says Drake, who is 58. "It's just the way we make our daily bread." Should Drake's plans come a cropper, perhaps through continued Justice opposition to the Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield merger, B.P. promises to have another bash at the U.S. before long...
...mother's Palm Beach house, Villa Artemis, for $350,000, moved in over the garage across the street. Next, in 1963, he sold their Manhattan apartment, took to commuting from his I l l-acre Long Island estate. Meanwhile, his plunges into Latin American airlines had come a cropper. He lost one airline when the Mexican government nationalized it. Even worse was his flyer with Aerovias Panama, a scheduled passenger and freight airline that went bankrupt two years ago, leaving him sole guarantor for bills totaling $499,765.43 owed to a Miami airplane-leasing company...
...Wimbledon looked reasonably bright-especially after Australia's Roy Emerson, the No. 2 seed, was beaten by an unseeded Yugoslav. But by week's end both Riessen and Richey had been eliminated, and Pasarell was the only American left. Finally, in the quarterfinals, Charlito also came a cropper, losing to Brazil's Thomas Koch, in five tough sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-8. At least the mercurial Puerto Rican had given the U.S., at a time when its tennis fortunes were down, a few shining sets...