Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King. Things've come full cycle for the King of the Blues. He was a highlight of Newport-New England, finally reaping the musical benefits of his gradual rise to fame: he had a band that fit his talents. Which is nothing against the old Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals, because in the old days (like at the Regal), they just cooked. It's just that now B B has a band that's not only good, but it's big five horns, and piano augmenting the standard rhythm section with a rhythm guitarist as icing. Upshot? I've never...
...highlight of the ceremony came when Pforzheimer, whose husband Carl Pforzheimer donated the money for the four, was asked to unveil the name of the boat and christen it. When she unswathed the bow of the boat, she discovered to her surprise that it was embossed with her own name...
...highlight of the match was the second doubles contest, when Brown's Terry Child and Polly Fourman nipped Jill Robertson and Marcy Richardson 6-7, 7-6, 7-6. Both teams played extremely well, but in the end it was nerves rather than skill which decided the match, as each set came to a nine-point tiebreaker...
Still, the message does highlight some key energy problems, and the Administration is confident that it is a major step in the right direction. In fact Shultz thinks of it as an interim report, implying that it will be followed with later Executive actions. Others in Washington seemed more than willing to help. At week's end Congress was preparing several bills of its own to deal with the growing energy crisis...
...Inskeep's Varsity H was the pioneering highlight of the season, the competitive hightlight came in the MIT match. MIT is the strongest rifle team in the New England area, and Harvard, heretofore a patsy by MIT standards, nearly upset the Englineers before bowing...