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...complete with a new piano player, Keith Godcheaux, who fitted into the band quite comfortably. The crowd was wrecked, on their feet, and screaming with unbounded enthusiasm before the first number. They were here to have a good time regardless of what came out of the performance. There were faint echoes of prepared laughter like the canned hysteria of television comedy. Significantly, the concert hadn't started yet because of a Dead equipment failure. Weir and Leash took the opportunity to make some condescending remarks to the kids, suggesting helpfully that they might amuse themselves by "scratching each others' butts...
...Greenawalt family in the Detroit exurb of Birmingham, Thanksgiving night brought an eye-opening confrontation. Dad, 41, was shown to be a man whose achievement of wealth, a handsome house and the senior vice presidency of a bank could not mask "the first faint shudder of discontent." His wife Jane, 39, was told that though she had won "her prince [and] her castle . . . she has found herself not living happily ever after." The three children, aged ten to 14, got the idea that their active, clubby mother might be neglecting them. The family learned that the eldest child, Sheri, considered...
...series of quiet diplomatic meetings in the U.S., Europe and Japan last week shaped the faint outlines of a deal. It calls for the U.S. to devalue the dollar by 5% or 7%, by raising either the price of gold or the price of the international Special Drawing Rights. There would be little or no change in the French franc or British pound, but because the dollar would be devalued, French and British goods would tend to be 5% to 7% costlier than U.S. exports...
With a 5-1 marksss in the Ivies, the Crimson and Cornell trail unbeaten Penn by one game going into the last weekend of conference matches. A Harvard victory today wold prolong the Crimson's faint hope for a title until tomorrow when the Quakers entertain the Big Red in Philadelphia...
...season approaches in Indochina, there are reports that the United States is planning new military operations and intensified bombing campaigns; many more Indochinese will die by next April. President Nixon told reporters on Friday that he planned to accelerate with-drawals by February, and he left a faint hope that negotiations at Paris or elsewhere might be an effective means...