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...Black Questions for Whitey" [July 12]: Sociologist Dove, despite his color, is not as soul as he thinks he is. "C.C." may have stood for Country Circuit when the late Chuck Willis rendered his emasculated version of the famous blues, but Ma Rainey sang it as Easy [not C.C.] Rider Blues much earlier. Old blues singers applied the term easy rider to the guitar, which, because of its shoulder strap, "rode easy." Eventually, because of the instrument's feminine shape, easy rider came to mean a woman of easy virtue or a man who prospered by her entrepreneurial activities...
...Rider," what does "C.C." stand for? a) Civil Service, b) Church Council, c) Country Circuit (Preacher...
...shrewdly dropped the financially tricky rider of a free fifth course (part of their original scheme) and were given a political boost by Yale's highly publicized "pass-fail" plan late in the fall. More important was a lot of routine political legwork--testimony before the CEP, interviews with Dean Ford and other CEP members. By the time the proposal to allow every student to take one of his courses ungraded came to a vote in November there was no argument. The CEP approved it unanimously and after a few weeks to arrange implementation, the Faculty passed...
...rank outsider in the second race betting, came on from fourth place in the stretch to overtake Third Party, the 8-1 third choice. Fox Star, the 2-1 favorite, made a strong move in the stretch but could finish no better than third. Empey Rullah lost his rider at the quarter pole. Po' L'il Chappie, a six-year-old gelding, ran the six furlongs in 1:12 4/5. He paid $149.40 straight, $51.60 for place, and $21.80 for the show...
Caught in a trap, Aspinall backed down. "It amounts to blackmail," he grumbled, as he allowed that if Hayden would withdraw his rider and stick with the Central Arizona Project bill as passed by the Senate, Aspinall's committee would take it up first thing next session. "This is all I ever wanted," responded Hayden with a grin...