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Jean Redpath performs traditional Scottish folk music Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Joy of Movement Center. Redpath is from Fife, Scotland, but has been living in the U.S. for some time; she was once on the music faculty of Middlebury College. Peter Johnson, who is hosting the concert, promises music ranging from "classic child ballads to idyllic pastoral love songs in Gaelic." Admission is $3, call 352-6595 for more information...
...Indianola, Iowa, 16 miles outside Des Moines, to spend the night as a guest of Farmer Woodrow Wilson Diehl and his wife Mary, It was the President's second overnight visit with an American family-and the Diehls' second visit from a President. In 1966 Lyndon Johnson stopped by for a few hours to look over Marywood, one of Iowa's showcase farms, on his way to a Democratic fund raiser in Des Moines...
...giving up the waterway became inextricably entangled with the matter of American strength and pride-of patriotism v. surrender. Yet for all the opposition, the pact has the backing of a very wide spectrum of informed opinion, including conservatives like Bill Buckley and John Wayne. Four successive Presidents-Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and now Jimmy Carter-have backed negotiations and pushed them along. Faults may be found with an imperfect document in a not so perfect world, but its basic realism has not been questioned by those with some familiarity with the issue. Why, then, the rancorous debate...
...that personal charm and poetic gifts entitled him to special treatment. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything. There is no necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship, a fantastic poet's girl, a sort...
Starting off slowly, the first seeded doubles team of Martha and Sally Roberts dropped the opening set of their opening match before starting their march to the finals. Recovering to beat the Boston University team of Erwin and Johnson, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1, the Roberts also ousted teams from Wheaton (0 and 2), MIT (6-1, 6-1), and UMass...