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...director, composer, mimic and raconteur, he has also established himself as an author of respectable talent and prodigious output. Besides 16 plays (including The Love of Four Colonels and Romanoff and Juliet), he has tooled a better-than-average novel, The Loser, a collection of short stories, Add a Dash of Pity, and two volumes of better-than-average caricatures...
...sounds of a kaleidoscopic journey that covered 31,000 miles-and, it seemed, as many handshakes-the President was ready to take off again. Having promised to stump all 50 states, Johnson plans to zip through 15 of them in four days to make good his word. He will dash from New England to the Midwest and the Northwest the first day, campaign along the West Coast the second, stop off in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona...
...miniaturization -saying something that instantly stands for a corporation's personality." His instructions for the signature music for American Express were that it should say "America, business, travel." The America part was easy; he simply recorded six notes of the national anthem, then added a dash of business and travel by "tricking the tape up a bit" with his machines. What these signatures say to Siday is money. None of them last longer than seven seconds, and he is paid at the average rate of $5,000 for each second...
...closest call experienced all year by the unbeaten, No. 3-ranked Bruins came at Rice, when they trailed 24-16 with a little more than three minutes to go. Quarterback Beban threw a 33-yd. pass that was deflected by two Rice defenders; Flanker Busby, a 9.4-sec.-dash man, flashed behind the defenders, leaped, and snared the ball for a touchdown. A 2-point conversion and a last-minute field goal rescued U.C.L.A. from near disaster 27-24. "It sure helps to have fast ones out there to receive," says Beban, who runs as well as he throws...
...eagles are relatively rare, and most falconers are happy enough to fly one of the smaller hawks. In brushy or forested country, the most popular species is the goshawk, a nimble, round-winged bird that can dash and dodge past the obstacles in pursuit of its prey...