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...School at Little Creek, Va., he slipped into the ice-blue waters off Key West, Fla., for an enjoyable afternoon of shark shooting. A couple of fathoms below the surface, he nonchalantly stuffed chunks of a freshly killed, 7-ft. sting ray into a meat grinder, let the bait drift down-current; soon he had five sharks gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down on Slaughter, jaws agape. The shark...
...elegiac about is the death of a separate ethnic cultural identity. While he prizes the U.S. melting pot, he dreads the homogenized young American to whom a wake is about as dated as a brogue. And so he tries to capture not only the wakes but the tangy, smoky drift of Irish talk, the parochial Irish viewpoint that every historical event can be reduced to some Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the fanciful delight in "Characters"-little Philsy Kerrigan, who once saved up a trunkful of doughnuts; Danny McGhee, who always slept in a maple tree...
...free concerts or opera productions. Since the musicians all play for the fun of it, La Selva is never quite sure how much of his orchestra will turn up. But the quality of his replacements is high; regular members of the Minneapolis, St. Louis and Pittsburgh orchestras who drift to New York after the symphony season "call Vince" as a matter of routine...
...Revolutionary council yesterday published an open letter in the New York Times to the professors who last week criticized the "present drift of U.S. Cuban policy." In it, the Council expressed its desire "to discuss this question in a public forum televised from coast to coast on television and/or elsewhere...
Last week the New York Times published an advertisement signed by 70 Faculty members protesting the "present drift" of the United States Government's policy toward Cuba. The statement has received wide coverage in the national press and in Latin American newspapers; it has inspired a series of four articles in the Boston American, moderately disapproving editorials in the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor, and columns by Arthur Krock (who disapproved) and Max Lerner (who was interested in the dissatisfaction of "young intellectuals"). It has moved a considerable number of persons to write letters of counter-protest...