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Jazz musicians of Byard's generation found a variety of ways to cope with the lean years of the late '60s and the rampant commercialism of the '70s music scene. A very few were lucky enough to retain some following without compromising their musical ideals. Many were forced to resort to a) "crossing over" to the lucrative popular music field; b) giving up on music and starving as recluses; or c) simply dying young. Jaki Byard represents a growing number of jazz figures who have averted both personal and artistic disaster by "taking it easy" and weathering this hyper decade...
...come next fall; up to now he has not had time, so the argument goes, to show his stuff. Many others doubt that he can do much until the summer of 1980, when the network will automatically command the air waves with the Moscow Olympics. Silverman himself seems to lean toward that timetable. "If I had a crystal ball and predicted what television will look like by the end of 1980," he says, "my judgment would be that CBS and NBC would be on top. But what I learned from Supertrain is that there really are no short cuts...
...spending high even when layoffs hit. The Government has set up many federal mortgage lending institutions that will keep housing from falling through the floor. Besides, businessmen have cautiously avoided the excesses that in the past have led to precipitate tumbles. Inventories in warehouses and on store shelves are lean, although Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., notes that the Iranian crisis and fear of an oil crunch have lately moved some businessmen to stock up in fear of more general shortages...
Week after week, they tumbled in startling succession. The lean and limber 19-year-old broke the world indoor records for the high hurdles five times, at distances between 50 yds. and 60 meters. His assault on the record book paused at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden when he could not resist proudly lifting his index finger at the tape. That gesture of triumph may have cost him another world record-he finished the 60 yds. in 6.89 sec., just .01 off his best time-but Renaldo Nehemiah has no regrets: "Up to this point, there were still...
Adults and offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...