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...took over the show. Calming, genial, sweet-faced and way cleverer than he appeared, Clark was the Ike of teens - a canny conduit to spread the social and sonic threat of rock 'n roll from kids' bedrooms into the nation's living rooms. Jerry Lee Lewis might come on, pound away at "Great Balls of Fire" and flip his head forward, letting his hair spill over his face like a thick blond veil. (I can still recall a delicious roiling in my stomach when I saw this.) But because Clark was running things, Jerry Lee's performance seemed less like...
Welch, a six foot four, 212 pound defenseman, played prep school hockey at St. Sebastian’s, where he led his team to a New England Prep Championship and earned his league’s MVP honors for his senior season. He hails from Brighton, just a short walk south from Harvard’s Bright Center...
...lazy, arrogant, spoiled-rich-kid President had developed the self-discipline to become an A student rather than a C student at Yale, he might still have control of the Senate. This is the man who was going to restore respect to the office of the presidency? SETH GLASSMAN Pound Ridge...
DIED. JOEY MAXIM, 79, light-heavyweight champion who defended his world title against Sugar Ray Robinson in 1952; of complications from a stroke; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Maxim faced Robinson on June 25 at Yankee Stadium in 103[degrees]F weather. Robinson, heralded as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time, was well ahead with the judges but keeled over from the heat after the 13th round, giving Maxim a technical knockout...
...brief: As a bloc, the European Union is Washington's largest trading partner, and together they constitute the 500-pound gorillas of world trade. That has meant that ongoing trade spats over issues ranging from bananas to airplane engines have at times bedeviled global trade talks such as those at the World Trade Organization. And the slowdown of the U.S. economy will sharpen the focus on trade issues in Washington's relations with Europe over the next few years...