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...Chuck Mangione's "Klee Impressions," Everett brought on three additional flutes plus an in-vogue soprano saxophone performance by the versatile Sacks. The mellifluous soloist offset some sluggish French horn work, and left a sweet taste in the listeners' mouths during intermission...
...Army-Harvard match-ups, which have a rich heritage filled with last-minute victories, should this year be decided in the running events. Army is the one team that should be able to offset the Crimson's incredible field advantage, and in all likelihood a peak at the mile-relay tape should reveal tomorrow's winner...
This August a series of conferences will begin at Taizé and later move on to other countries. The meetings, to be called the Council of Youth, will explore ways that the young can help offset the injustices of the world so that, as a council slogan puts it, man will "no longer be victim to man." Brother Roger does not want the council to become a bureaucratized movement. There will be, he says, "no successions of votes, amendments, commissions, representations. It will be like an ever-widening river ... it will be what we shall have become...
...lieu of tax payments are the monies that Harvard pays to the city "voluntarily" to offset some of the cost to the city and to pay for some of the vital services provided to Harvard by the city. The annual figure has increased dramatically from $283,095 in 1971 to about $500,000 for 1973. But this large increase has not solved the problems the city faces nor relieved the pressure the city council and city manager place on Harvard...
...frightening at the same time. When last summer Central II showed Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (about a fake wartime hero who runs for mayor of a small town), tiny audiences doubled over in laughter for seven nights. But the commercial loss to the theater wasn't even offset by the full-house receipts from King of Hearts next door. "There are very few theaters now that can show a film like that," says Robert St. George '64, manager of Harvard Square, Central, and Brattle. "A lot of art houses have closed in the last few years...