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Heavy metal has acquired a rather strange reputation these days. It is a brand of rock that never set out to be "art" and can do without intellectual and critical backgammon games, but nonetheless, rock critics seem unable to resist. One such critic, Lester Bangs, dismisses it as a "tyrannosaurus tamed into brontosaurus mild-mannered." I guess we are supposed to see the development of this genre in England in terms of the birth of a veritable fire-breathing British dragon while the noble St. George and bands like Pink Floyd, the Yardbirds, and even Led Zeppelin were occupied with...
...Lester Thurow--Ballou Hall at Tufts...
Died. Henry Hull, 86, character actor who appeared in 46 movies and created the role of Tobacco Road's Jeeter Lester on Broadway; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England. Though the critics panned the Erskine Caldwell play when it opened in 1933, Hull believed it to be an honest, if disturbing, portrait of rural poverty. He refused to be paid until word of mouth made the play a hit; it was performed 3,182 times, the third longest run in Broadway history...
Pleasure Principle. In parts of the critically overpopulated Third World, birth rates are also tapering off. "Sometime near the beginning of this decade, the rate of world population growth reached an all-time high and then began to subside," notes Lester Brown, president of WorldWatch Institute, an international research organization. "In 1970 human numbers grew by an estimated 1.90%, an annual increase of 69 million. The most recent data show a marked decline since then, to 1.64%, an increase of 64 million a year...
Though legally bound to convene just three times a year, county commissioners meet weekly. Surprisingly, in the face of such lax requirements, a favorite accusation for the commissioners to hurl at each other is sloth. "The only no-show employee left in the county is Lester Ralph," McLaughlin claims. Danehy estimates that Ralph spends 30 to 45 minutes per week on county business, while he credits McLaughlin with putting in a full 40-hour week to earn his annual $9500 stipend. Danehy himself says he spends a day or two every week at the courthouse...