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...anniversary concert Friday night in Sanders Theater will open the festivities. Both the concert and marching bands, with help from the alumni, will perform under the direction of conductor Thomas G. Everett...
Double Jeopardy. Given the conflicting demands, a political wife begins to wonder who she is. She may lose her sense of worth and identity. "Politics has nullified my personality," claims Joy Dirksen Baker, who has suffered double political jeopardy, as it were. Her father was the sonorous Senate orator Everett Dirksen; her husband is Tennessee Senator Howard Baker. "The problem started with my father, who was famous," she says. "Then the Watergate hearings came along, and Howard catapulted to prominence. I've always felt I was sort of an appendage...
...post made Ford a national figure with a handy pulpit to express his views. He joined the late Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen in "The Ev and Jerry Show," a weekly televised press conference that was intended as a G.O.P. rebuttal to the Great Society. True to character, Ford was content to play straight man to Dirksen's grandiloquent grandstanding...
...every bit as successful a vote getter in Illinois. In his first campaign in 1964, he outdrew all 235 other candidates for the state legislature, two years later led the Democratic ticket again when he ran for state treasurer. Since his election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back as 1972, recently directed the unsuccessful Senate effort to retain stand-by controls over wages and prices...
...Everett unveiled his headliners in the second half, an aura of professionalism blanketed the local performers. Fontana, a sprawling red-shirted mass, bellowed out a beautiful, conventional rendition of "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," and then offered a fine interpretation of Bill Howard's "Carl," with an ingenious improvisational tag. The classicist gave way to the more experimental Wilson, who flirted with his own creation "Mother England." Wilson "kibbitzed" with his instrument, contorting the sound until an exasperated Fontana blurted out from the wings, "You can't do that with the trombone...