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Wurf has achieved his success by a kind of gruff militancy that is a fading memory in many unions. A last-minute college dropout (in his senior year), he looks deceptively like a brooding scholar with his horn-rimmed glasses, roughhewn features and thatched gray hair. He dispels the image when he speaks, showering listeners with four-letter words in a manner that is both threatening and amiable. Wurf's dogged, determined style has aroused traditionally conservative public workers. "Let's face it," he says, "a guy who's been collecting garbage for 20 years...
...Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. As much as he relishes the Sequoia-like majesty of the Chicago's brass section, and its evergreen forest of strings, Solti is equally partial to the meadowed tranquillity of the wood winds. The delicate lyricism he conjures up between oboe and English horn in the pastoral movement of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique would be welcome at a chamber music recital. Yet for all his romantic predilections, Solti expertly manipulates the arcane configurations of such moderns as Arnold Schoenberg and Elliott Carter...
...varsity's capture of the Greater Boston Championship on April 16 is another reason for Horn's optimism. He also said that his 25-man varsity includes five "outstanding skippers:" Brownlee, Clem Wood, George Putnam, Tim Black and Chris Middendorf...
...Horn pointed out that Harvard finished ahead of all Ivy challengers last weekend in qualifying for the New England Dinghy Championship...
Although it's the top-ranked skippers who get the glory, Horn called Harvard's sailing program "very informal," and added, "We don't cut anyone. We try to give everyone the opportunity to sail." Everyone, that is, who can survive a few accidental dousings in the Charles...