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Those lyrics tell the result of a trip from the crest of popularity to relative anonymity. In the '60s, Dylan's protest songs either caught or created a wave. The public agreed the man could do little wrong. Even when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. enraging many "purists", Dylan captured a horde of new fans. But religion does not pay. The erstwhile "conscience of a generation", has become an outcast bent on avoiding (or so it seems) the path to popular redemption. Long-time admirers abandoned Dylan, feeling betrayed, while many critics stopped reviewing...
...most pleasant surprises of the Crimson pre-season training camp (held earlier this month at Prince George's Academy in Newport, R.I.) was reserve wing Steve Higginson. Reporting in top physical shape, the lightning-quick offensive threat is "looking like dynamite," said Ford. "He obviously worked very, very hard over the summer; there is no comparison with last year." Higginson will alternate with Keller-Sarmiento...
Vicino has erected 50 blow-up billboards, and so far reports few problems. The company says that it has received no complaints from neighbors irritated by the inflated advertising. The only untoward incident was when a prankster in Newport Beach, Calif., stuffed a mannequin's leg into the mouth of a giant killer whale advertising the Los Angeles Marineland amusement park...
...Labor Department survey of 305 Chicago-area restaurants revealed that 91% were underpaying their workers. Two restaurants in Miami Beach, Newport Pub and Roney Pub, were ordered by a federal judge this summer to pay $250,000 in back wages to more than 900 past and present employees. A part-owner of both restaurants is Walter Kaplan, the vice mayor of Miami Beach...
After several days of intensive instruction (including homework), the campers choose their own computer project. Last week, for example, Peter Elliman, 12, was trying to design a program to analyze taxes for his mother, a Houston real estate agent. Halley Hupp, 13, of Newport Beach, Calif, said, "I want to make a C.S.I. [Computer System Instruction] program for teaching kids like us how to use some graphics and key words." Counselors give the youthful programmers high marks. Says Instructor Mitch Williams, 22, a computer-science graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara: "I'm glad the kids...