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...agreed to move, and will likely end up in San Diego, where the prevailing joke round town is: Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? Miami Beach officials were reluctant to offer the Republicans a bid, possibly because they thought they were simply being used as a lever to reduce Graham's price. Florida's perturbed Governor Reubin Askew met with Miami Beach city leaders last week to iron out the difficulties...
...movies in wide-screen color. The only time the ammunition is touched by human hands is when it is loaded into the automatic hoist. Deep in the bowels of the ship, Fire Controlman Second Class Jim Fagan of Miami holds the portable trigger in his hand, nonchalantly squeezing the lever when he gets the signal over his headphones. "I don't feel like I'm part of this war," says one sailor. "I never see what we're shooting at, or whether it does any good...
...album's faults lie mainly with Canned Heat's original material. Their own compositions are not nearly the equals of their versions of other's songs though their high lever of musicianship makes ever the worst song tolerable, Judging by the recorded efforts to date, the return to the "50s has strengthened rock and roll--it's given a lot of aimless musicians someplace to go. The roots of rock have always been strong: they are a reassuring retreat in a relatively uncreative period of rock and roll...
...show, a look of distance on his face, wondering perhaps why he is stuck in back of a bank of amplifiers instead of playing out front as he usually does. Even during "Jumpin Jack Flash" when Harrison has ripped off his coat and the band is playing at a lever pitch. Russell stares vacantly across the stage, hardly working up a sweat, yet creating an air of excitement with his vocal and piano work...
Intimidated. Not all of the adjustments were confined to the men, of course. Vastly outnumbered, women tended initially to be intimidated in class, though the girls did well in their written work. "You were expected to be a mixture of Margaret Mead and Scarlett O'Hara," says Janet Lever. "There you are in class discussing Lolita, and the professor turns to you and asks for the woman's point of view. It created a very tense situation." By the second year, adds Pepper Schwartz, "the women students had been radicalized. They had more of an idea of what...