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Groucho, Harpo, and Chico romp through A Day at the Races full speed ahead, leaving behind a trail of devastated buildings, befuddled police officers, and shattered pianos. Groucho is cast as a horse doctor in disguise, Harpo as a jockey, and Chico as an ice cream vendor, but all this is merely an excuse for them to get together and start wrecking the place. It is a foregone conclusion that Harpo will ride the horse to victory and save the sanatorium of which Groucho has become chief of staff...
Even though the New Haven intruders must be given the edge, a bulldog romp is no certainty...
...Alba and Lauro's Two Venezuelan Dances. The Sainz is a tremulo peice very reminiscent of Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, but far more haunting and piercing. A technically demanding work, Diaz gave it a powerful presentation. Even more impressive was his performance of the Lauro Dances, which romp all over the fretboard...
...Orleans' all-white Sugar Bowl, top-ranked Alabama relied on a stingy defense to eke out a 10-3 victory over Arkansas. In Pasadena's Rose Bowl, a crowd of 98,000 watched Minnesota shrug off an early U.C.L.A. field goal, romp to an easy 21-3 victory. And in Miami's rain-drenched Orange Bowl, Louisiana State's hard-rushing linemen blocked two Colorado punts, routed the outmanned Westerners 25-7. Perhaps the biggest winner of all was L.S.U. Coach Paul Dietze, who flew home to Baton Rouge after the game ready to accept...
...where and how Johnny can crash into college, David Boroff's Campus U.S.A. (Harper; $4.50) is a highly readable romp through higher education, from Harvard to Pomona, that tells almost everything college catalogues do not. Nor should aspiring freshmen neglect Katherine Kinkead's slim, fat-titled How an Ivy League College Decides on Admissions (Norton; $2.95), an illuminating account of Yale's headaches...