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Three months ago, not even police undercover agents in San Francisco had heard of a terrorist outfit called the Symbionese Liberation Army. Now, the bizarrely named group has burst into prominence across the U.S. by convincingly claiming responsibility for two spectacular crimes in the Bay Area...
This band is louder. And possibly less assuming. The first group had its self-indulgences--Purim and Airto occasionally turned the band into an immensely talented Brasil '66. (And this may be what I mean by Latin influences). The outfit that showed up at Sanders has an album, Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy, and all those Mahavishnu comparisons. But it wasn't the same. This band is subdued, even sedate. One t-shirt. No dashikis. Corea himself is dressed in late period St. Grottlesex. Solid introductions. Then seven-eight fingersnaps and "Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy" seems half over. "Hymn...
...sorry, sir, your credit card has expired," said the Butler Aviation official at Palm Beach International Airport. The short, gray-haired man in the blue sports outfit had just stepped off a silver-gray and blue Olympic Airways Learjet, which had stopped for refueling on a flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to New York. But it seems that Greek Oil Tanker Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 67, had failed at a simple piece of domestic scheduling: his Shell Oil credit card was out of date, and Ari had no charge account with Butler. So while he coped with the necessary paper work...
...merely being Nobel laureates entitles them to no special consideration in what the scientific community acknowledges is a tough outfit. A couple of Nobelists were transferred to consultant status when they became too busy to participate in N.R.P.'s demanding schedule of meetings...
...Gravel, William Scott and Vance Hartke were bunched together as "least effective." Some of the Senators were predictably pleased, others predictably outraged. Some felt that the CHNS polling method had all the reliability of a high school popularity contest. But U.P.I, picked up the story and gave the struggling outfit some badly needed attention...