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...recent, unrelated moves reflect this emerging mentality. The first involves the marching band, the ragtag collection of rowdies which has come under fire the past couple of years for its cheeky halftime shows. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III decided that the performances did not "communicate across generations." To insure more widespead comprehension of the shows, Epps decided he would have to start reviewing all scripts beforehand...
...quiet,, comely heiress to a famed publishing fortune who spent much of her time preparing for her intended marriage to Steven Andrew Weed, 26, a graduate philosophy student. Kidnaped on Feb. 4 by the obscure revolutionary band that grandiosely calls itself an army but is more of a ragtag platoon, she seemed close to release two weeks ago, after her family started a free-food program for the Bay Area's needy and aged that the S.L.A. had demanded. Then she stunned her family and friends by announcing that she had renounced them, joined her abductors, and adopted...
Whether the French presence will be sufficient to create a stalemate in the seven-week-old war will depend on what Gaddafi does next. Western intelligence sources put the number of Libyan troops in Chad at 2,500, while Goukouni has perhaps 3,000 men in his ragtag army. But those combined ground forces are backed by aircraft and heavy weapons, including as many as 400 tanks and armored vehicles on the outskirts of Faya-Largeau, which the government of Chad is unable to match. The Libyan air force has a base for its fighters in the Aozou Strip...
Warm bodies have been hired, hardware has been ordered, and both are moving in this month. The 15 or so computers, among them the Apple II, Epson QX-10 and IBM Personal Computer, will occupy two rooms above the ragtag waterfront of Sausalito, Calif. Already a big hand-scrawled chart pinned to one wall proclaims deadlines to meet and procedures to follow. Says Stewart Brand, leading a tour of his future headquarters: "This is the shell. The peas are still falling into place...
...much for the world's bigots and half-pints, whose hash has been temporarily settled by the quirkiest, most implacable satiric sensibility in American pop. They may join the ragtag list of victims, victimizers, unanointed antiheroes and assorted foul balls about whom Newman has sung with stinging wit and unexpected compassion. Newman, 39, exults in playing musically the same role he has picked for himself socially: the perennial sourpuss at the party, over in the corner, casing the room and making nasty cracks about the other guests. On his new album, Trouble in Paradise (Warner Bros...