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...Creek are not at all sure they want that. Says Walt Schultz, 65, who has helped run all 21 events: "With the A.C.A., we'd still have to do all the work and they'd just tell us what to do. We don't want to kowtow to the great canoeists. All we want is a fun weekend-strictly amateur. We cater to the everyday Joe who wants to bring his kids here and have a good time." By those criteria, North Creek's derby this year, as always, was a success. Cold...
Trailing by 12 points at one stage in the second half. the cagers simply refused to kowtow. When Cyrus Booker swished a pair of free throws with 2:03 left to play, the hoopsters took an 85-83 lead which they held onto with something bordering on cold fury. "You could see the determination in their faces," said coach Frank McLaughlin. "Tonight we decided to do it all together...
What possessed Shelley? Holmes has tried to find the answer by retracing a path trampled flat by idolaters. After a pampered, precocious childhood filled with adoring sisters, gothic novels and the promise of an inherited baronetcy, Shelley was thrust into a Dickensian boarding school. At Eton, his refusal to kowtow to senior students earned him the nickname "Mad Shelley." There followed University College, Oxford, which gratefully expelled young Percy Bysshe, after a scant six months, for writing a broadside on atheism...
Staff attorneys for the Children's Defense Fund--a group that lobbied for the Buckley law and has opposed Pell's attempts to amend it--said yesterday that "Wexler's draft" has "undercut" and "screwed over" the original student files law in an effort to "kowtow to places like Harvard...
...hour with the top guy. That boils down to half an hour of talk. Is that enough to start this historic chain of events going that Nixon talks about so much? Maybe. But there is also the sense that the President has come to China to kowtow...