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...first day as acting president of San Francisco State College, 4½ years ago, S.I. Hayakawa, wearing a plaid tam-o'-shanter, jumped on top of a student striker's sound truck and ripped out the loudspeaker wires. Although he cooled the campus, he managed to stir up some controversy of his own. Student activists have been trying unsuccessfully to stick him and the trustees with a federal suit alleging embezzlement, bribery, fraud, racial discrimination, lack of due process and misappropriation of student funds...
...Plaid Coat...
Cecil decided that he would shoot a few frames of the Inauguration from the stands behind the President, where he had recorded other Inaugurations. He dug out his big plaid coat, called a Wooldea, purchased for $19.95 the previous fall in Canada. Its bright blue and brown would liven a dull...
...could he? stormed Walker. The White House was raging. Nixon's moment in history had been desecrated. These were the pictures that would go into the books. These were the photos that Nixon's children would have to look at. And there was Stoughton and his plaid coat...
Vaudevillians. Fortunately, that public by and large insists upon a modicum of quality. Bizarre vaudevillians like Jethro Tull, the manic-impressive group for which Anderson is lead singer and flutist, are still artisans right down to their self-mocking codpieces and plaid jerkins. Singer-Composer King, 29, spins out her multitextured ballads with craft and sensitivity and raises her piano playing to something more than mere accompaniment. Nilsson, 31, blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore...