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Both Salas and Ranare seem to be out for more than a lark-or the winner-take-all $10 prize money (losers get a couple of free drinks). Salas, a railway shipping worker, comes to fight "to get the fears inside of me out." Ranare, who grew up in the South Bronx, came to Arizona a year ago to beat a heroin habit, which, happily, he did. "My idea," he says, "is to work out my frustrations from work and from the old lady." Though the club tries to match fighters evenly, any two people who want to fight each...
That's not all that looks promising for Bach Soc this week; the group is also performing Vaughan William's "Serenade to Music" with the Harvard University Choir. Last year, Bach Soc did RVW's "Lark Ascending," which was beautifully done. The piece for this concert should be well worth hearing, so don't miss it. Bach Soc has demonstrated that it's able to pull off a program combining German baroque and English pastoral or Russian schmalz very well...
...Frederic Golden, who wrote an accompanying article on why it all happened. The senior editors for the whole project were Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss. Says Kriss, who wrote our cover stories on the '64 Harlem riots and the '65 blackout: "The '65 blackout was a lark. This one was more like the '64 riots-a disaster...
...impressive. One woman gave her $5,000 and made a $12,260 profit within a year. She then got some friends to put up $15,000 for a land deal in Spain; seven months later, they were paid back $26,325-a 75.5% profit. Says she: "It was a lark-it was like Monopoly money." As word of Adela's business acumen spread, people clamored to invest in her ventures, which until recently she ran from her home with the aid of two staffers, a middle-aged English secretary and a young college graduate. At first, most investors continued...
...first came to light a year ago when FBI agents stopped two men who had entered the U.S. courthouse in Washington carrying false IRS agents' credentials. One, an IRS clerk-typist, was sentenced to two years on probation after he confessed forging the identity papers as a drunken lark. The second man, however, gave an alias and disappeared. Last month he suddenly turned himself in, identified himself as Michael James Meisner, 27, a former national secretary of the Church of Scientology, and said he had just escaped from two months of "house arrest" by cult members. Meisner told...