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...solely an occupation to for Eskimos and masochists. Hunkering down beside holes in icebound rivers and lakes, in temperatures that would give a seal the sniffles, the Izaak Waltons of midwinter would spend hours shivering and waiting for the tug on a line that told them a pike or a perch had been hooked...
Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, travelers often found gas stations closed. Some that were open raised prices. On the Black Horse Pike between Philadelphia and Atlantic City, a Shell station owner was retailing premium for 86.7? per gal. Presumably, some thought was given to all of this over the afternoon turkeys; on Thanksgiving night and Friday, drivers noted widespread obedience of new legal limits. Many people just kept off the highways altogether. Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, had to get "every available coach" out of mothballs to meet an unexpected flood of business...
Rush hour cars move by the river toward the Mass Pike; in Harvard Stadium field lights go on to repel the dusk. On the field, the Crimson varsity continues to work...
...good news and bad news. First, the bad news. If you get the chance to avoid seeing BLACK OAK ARKANSAS at the Orpheum Theater, take it. This has to be one of the worst groups to hobble down the pike in a long, long while. Jim Mangrum's performance as a lead singer comes off like a pitiful imitation of Mick Jagger doing a deliberately bad rendition of Grand Funk Railroad's greatest hits...
Married. Kris Kristofferson, 36, country music composer (Me & Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down), singer, movie actor (Cisco Pike, Blume in Love) and former Rhodes scholar; and Rita Coolidge, 28, smoky-voiced blues singer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Malibu, Calif...