Word: gordon
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Fresh Sprouts. Much of California was drenched by rain last week, but after almost six months of unrelieved drought, the downpours were too late to be of much help to farmers. As Gordon Snow, an official in the state Department of Food and Agriculture, put it: "It is going to have to rain for 40 days and 40 nights to make any difference." Because of the lack of rain, California's usually green fields are burned brown. Wildlife, starved for fresh sprouts, is migrating to the few irrigated areas. Fruits and vegetables have been withering for lack of moisture...
Kirkland took top honors in the match. In a crucial final duel, sophomores Brian McCarren and Bruce Gordon battled to a 4-4 tie, but McCarren wielded the winning foil and took the match, 5-4. Gordon finished second in the competition...
...tremendous series of jazz albums is coming out of Copenhagen featuring Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew and a couple of great Danish performers. They are under the Steeplechase label and seem to provide the logical link to the pre-electric era of the 1960s. Perhaps the finest of the series is the two-record collection The Meeting and The Source with Jackie McLean sitting in on alto with Dexter on tenor. Dexter's The Apartment has some excellent moments also. Dexter fled the U.S. because nobody appreciated his greatness. Fortunately, he's back to haunt...
...Bicentennial Follies. A weak dramatic framework provides an excuse for several genuinely moving songs in this original musical by Paris K.C. Barclay, Steven Gordon Crist and Mark P. O'Donnell. If you can't keep up with the show's abrupt shifts in mood, from parody through black humor to tragedy, just sit back and listen to the voices, which are more than equal to the material. At the Quincy House Dining Room, March 12 at 8:30 p.m. and March 13 at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets...
...Gordon and Malik have now been named editor and assistant editor, respectively, of "Grassroots," a weekly supplement to The Collegian which covers the university's Third World community...