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...however, did an excellent job, and Aaron Johnson's clean, rich clarinet tone was outstanding. Russell Stanger, beginning his second season with the orchestra, conducted the work in the first two movements as if it were by Richard Strauss. Only in the last movement did conductor, orchestra, and soloists loosen up enough to capture some of the Mozartian good-humor that makes this piece a perennial favorite...
...Lowell, said he would approach the question of relaxing parietal rules with an open mind. He explained that last year the Masters feared the draft would absorb upperclassmen from the Houses, that freshmen would be admitted in their places, and that under such circumstances it would be unwise to loosen parietal restrictions...
...other nations in the bloc could relax their restrictions. Despite these facts, the International Monetary Fund (with a hefty nudge from the U.S.) last week decided to keep stiff limitations on the use of its $8 billion; loans would be made only to nations which make an effort to loosen restrictions...
...Europe's . . . progress ... is hobbled by a web of customs barriers interlaced with bilateral agreements, multilateral cartels, local shortages and economic monstrosities. How tragic! Free men, facing the specter of political bondage, are crippled by artificial bonds that they themselves have forged and they alone can loosen...
...fight time approached, the champ began to loosen up. Pacing up & down the room, throwing in a quick skip-step before each turn, he began kidding with Papa and Manager George Gainford, was soon talking baseball and skipping an imaginary rope. By the time he walked down the aisle to the ring, jogging rhythmically to some inner melody, the atmosphere of tension and strained horseplay was gone. From the instant the bell sounded, Sugar Ray Robinson was the master craftsman who knew just what he was doing-the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world...