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Amidit the screams of 4500 UConn fans and the blaring of a 20-plece Dixieland pep band, Connecticut overcame a 38-35 halftime deficit and repeatedly threatened to pall away from the Crimson...
...American composer frequently given to writing symphonic paeans to the U.S.) for performance by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. The University of Indiana chorus prepared a new oratorio, taken from a Nov. 24, 1963, New York Times editorial that began: "The leaden skies of yesterday were like a pall." Sicilian troubadours chanted a musical legend that grew up among the island's villagers after Kennedy died: "With his big heart and full of courage/ He attracted the people with his manner/ And many, many learned the language/ Of peace and loyalty without making fools of themselves...
After 14 years, that big, multiple eye has finally begun to pall. "Who the hell ever said there should be TV 24 hours a day?" O'Brian asked last week. He is thinking seriously of switching off all six sets, he said, in favor of seeking broader battleground with a column conditionally titled "Jack O'Brian at Large." In its way, that ambition constitutes Jack O'Brian's most devastating TV criticism...
...aristocracy seems old, aloof, often tyrannical, and too busy discoursing on foreign policy or participating in university colloquia to keep in touch with grass-roots concerns. Some annoying habits of union leaders that are ignored so long as they deliver-frequent travel, conspicuously high living-begin to pall when there is less left to deliver. Unionists call this the "high-hat issue" or "uppity unionism." To escape its onus, one U.A.W. troubleshooter in Pittsburgh refuses to wear white shirts, and a top officer of a food employees union says: "I wouldn't drive a Cadillac these days...
...Pall Mall First. According to Analyst John C. Maxwell Jr., who keeps the most reliable count of this secretive market, American Tobacco's king-size Pall Mall is still the fastest seller, closely followed by R. J. Reynolds' Winston. Unfiltered Camel and Lucky Strike, which vied for first place until the late 1950s, are steadily losing favor. In a comeback attempt, American is test-marketing Lucky Strikes with a tobacco-flavored filter, has sent out Luckies' veteran, quick-tongued radio auctioneer, "Speed" ("Sold American!") Riggs, to promote them in stores throughout the South...