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Although P.L.O. moderates may eventually be resigned to some kind of territorial compromise with Israel, Arafat obviously considered last week an inappropriate time to mention it. His hard line was clearly aimed toward P.L.O. supporters in the Arab world, where the speech was beamed by satellite. Not since the heyday of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had any speech been so eagerly awaited. On the streets of Beirut and Cairo, people gathered round anyone carrying a transistor radio to listen in. In the refugee camps of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, a holiday was declared; schools were closed...
Conservatism continued its upsurge as 380 freshmen signed the Republican's list at the September 16 registration--a more than 50-per-cent increase over last year's total and a higher order of magnitude from the 35 students comprising the Young Republican Club in the radical heyday...
Died. Cliff Arquette, 68, creative comedian whose squashed hat, spectacles and baggy pants identified him to TV viewers as the wisecracking bumpkin, Charley Weaver; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Arquette began carving the character of Charley during the heyday of radio, when he played the "Old-timer" on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. In 1957, Charley became a regular on the Jack Paar show, where he shared with the world letters written to him by his mother from mythical Mount Idy, Ohio...
...unhealthy, he suspected, to live at the center of the world. Once in America, only America exists.....All those mountains and rivers, the deserts and the snow, the ghosts of buffalo and the threats of holocaust. Perhaps--this bothered him--Greece had been something like this in her heyday. Perhaps the peace he felt there now was the peace of powerlessness. Problems had assumed human proportions again. People laughed and shrugged. They cared but they didn't worry. The sea and the marble and pines calmed the spirit. Or killed it--laid it in the eager hands of waiting colonels...
Jazz rock is merely the handy rubric. The music itself is one of the most exuberant, rich and versatile brands of pop to come along since the heyday of Dylan and the Beatles. From the flowering of boogie-woogie and swing in the 1930s to the advent of bebop and then cool in the 1940s, jazz has lived and gained new ground through hybridization...