Word: neil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book's comic tone is bland rather than pithy, a little disappointing coming from Neil Simon. The rhythms of the Burt Bacharach score sound like sporadic rifle fire, and aside from one melodic lament, I'II Never Fall in Love Again, the songs are interchangeably tuneless. In the first-act finale, a Christmas office-party number produces a vigorous choreographic commotion, except that it obviously attempts to duplicate the volcanic Brotherhood of Man sequence in How to Succeed...
Under the persuasive leadership of Superintendent Neil Sullivan and a five-man school board, Berkeley last September began bussing 2,000 white elementary pupils out of wooded, hillside suburbs to once heavily Negro schools in the flatlands near San Francisco Bay. About 2,000 black children move in the opposite direction. Another 2,000 students of each race were shifted to other schools within walking distance of their homes. The aim of all the trans fers was to make sure that each of Berkeley's 14 elementary schools has between 36% and 45% black enrollment. This closely matches...
...Neil Coles, a top-ranking British golf pro, took a slow boat to Houston last year for the Ryder Cup matches rather than fly, thereby eliminating himself from several tournaments that took place while he was at sea, including the one with the richest first prize of all, the $55,000 Alcan. Singer Jack Landron passed up a free junket to Finland, which he won on TV's Dating Game, because he refused to fly. While designing the capital city of Brasilia, Architect Oscar Niemeyer regularly drove the 575 miles overland from Rio de Janeiro rather than take...
Hurley is the team's leading punt return artist this year, having run back nine punts for an average of 14.2 yards a carry. "Neil is surefingered and uses his blockers well," Yovicsin says...
...Neil Hurley will be doing everything in his power next Saturday to keep his mistakes to a minimum...