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...risky pass, but more often the game resorted to a one-on-one drill. It was a "look for the hot-hand" approach, and bad shots were taken out of sheer desperation. Players were shuffled in and out and each tried his 20-foot through. Hal Smith and Rod Foster each took his turn pitting himself against the whole Penn team and the result was frustration and more risks...
...there now appear to be a few signs of constructive action as tomorrow night's meeting approaches. The House Committee in Quincy has told Quincy CHUL representative Rod Petersen that it would like to have pets in this House and will be responsible for jumping on owners who abuse their animals. Petersen had already expressed an interest in bringing the issue to a full discussion. Perhaps Moore and his subcommittee, which saw its report go by the boards, will begin to feel properly indignant about the way its recommendations were shelved...
...date set for the eviction of pets was January 4, but then it was extended to February 8 at the CHUL's next meeting, when the subject still seemed to be unworthy of serious consideration. "I had the feeling no one wanted to talk about it," said Rod Petersen, a student CHUL member...
...there is anything in nature more single-minded than a salmon making its way through a thousand miles of water to the precise runnel where it was born, it is the fisherman-especially a British fisherman-bent on interrupting that journey with rod and line. In this deft and funny account of a stay at a Welsh fishing hotel, originally written as an Esquire piece, Novelist (Home from the Hill) William Humphrey encourages the reader to savor the eccentricities of both men and fish. His characters include an admiral whose refusal to clutter his memory with such matters...
...look may refer to the West Coast folk culture of hot-rod and chopper, or to aerospace technology; it has little to do with the "mainstream" of art as defined in New York, and some critics find this hard to forgive. "It is apparently as easy," snorted one writer in Art forum recently, "to rack up in Los Angeles as an artist as it is to be a stringer of beads. In California, the idea of luxe, calme et volupté is simplified into prettiness and expensive-lookingness...