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...first time any legitimate theatre had done so. Students were to be charged a flat $2.50 price for the best seats available at any given performance. The ad ran once and sold out completely within two weeks, selling nearly $5000 worth of $2.50 tickets. "Then we began getting flak from the box office of Shubert Theatre about the discounts," Mindich said, "and the offer was withdrawn...
...band director Jim Walker acknowledged yesterday there is pressure to keep the shows at the Brown and Yale games reasonably clean. Walker indicated there has been scattered flak, not so much from Pittenger as from other Athletics Department personnel, the Faculty Committee for Athletics and the Dean of Students, who apparently has been mostly relaying the unhappiness of others...
...band director Jim Walker acknowledged yesterday there is pressure to keep the shows at the Brown and Yale games reasonably clean. Walker indicated there has been scattered flak, hotly in private the band's spoof of the Papal encyclical on birth control at, of all games, the one against Holy Cross...
...campaign, LeMay entered a cloudier more complex political world in which he is less at home. Said Barry Goldwater a former Air Force Reserve major general who has known LeMay for years: "I hope he hasn't made a mistake, but I think he has." There was even flak from his mother-in-law "I idolize Curt," said 91-year-old Maude Maitland a staunch Republican, "but I'm very, very disappointed. Mihai Patrichi LeMay's boss at California's Networks Electronic Corp,, declared: "Wallace is a no-good bum. He just like the dictators when...
...that era's heroes still seeking to command. In England, LeMay concluded that too many of his B-17s were missing targets because they zigzagged away from antiaircraft fire. He led the next raid over Saint-Nazaire, directing his planes in a straight-line block formation through the flak. Next day he ordered his planes to take no more evasive actions on their final bombing runs. Losses went up, but so did the proficiency of his bombers. LeMay took similar risks in the Pacific. Assigned to run 300-plane B-29 raids against Japan, he removed his bombers guns...