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...leases this year alone (according to the state constitution, two-thirds goes annually to U.T. and one-third to Texas A & M). Says Weinberg: "Everyone seems acutely aware of the opportunity this university has of making the same move that Berkeley once made-of becoming an absolutely peerless university." In the mid-'70s oil revenues were sunk into concrete edifices: $32.5 million for a basketball arena, $6.5 million for swimming, $2.5 million for baseball. Last year the university dedicated a $40 million fine-arts center, as well as a $10 million addition to the law school. A $32 million...
Those days are over: days when a rocker had a right to expect that the music he made-like Fogerty and his peerless band, Creedence Clearwater Revival-could reach a large as well as a knowing audience; when the radio played a dazzling diversity of music, not a range as thin as the air between two stations. For the first time, under the regency of radio programmers and the tyranny of marketing studies and demographics, rock 'n' roll has been successfully factionalized and fractionalized, smashed into a mass of splinters with few sharp edges. A song for everyone...
Leonard's victory now confirms him as a remarkable champion. He is a strange mix for a fighter, a combination of peerless skills and yearnings to transcend the brutal arena in which he displays them. When he returned from Montreal in 1976, he vowed not to be a professional fighter, preferring to go to college. But the endorsements that he had hoped would support him after his ballyhooed triumph never materialized-white athletes end up on Wheaties boxes, he bitterly asserted, blacks do not. So he took to the ring. For years, he counted his money and waited...
...astonishing complexity of the craft's design, in its peerless performance certainly in the cool performance of its astronauts-possessors of what Tom Wolfe calls "the right stuff"-Columbia was a much needed reaffirmation of U.S. technological prowess. It came at a moment when many Americans, and much of the world as well, were questioning that very capability. The doubts grew out of a succession of U.S. setbacks: from the defeat in Viet Nam to the downed rescue helicopters in the Iranian desert, from the debacle of Three Mile Island to Detroit's apparent defenselessness against the onslaught...
Peter Sellers, 54, peerless English master of mirth, a man of many faces who slipped easily into parts as diverse as the crazed Dr. Strangelove, the bumbling Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame and the brilliantly bland gardener turned presidential adviser in Being There...