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...clear from the beginning that the select committee would have to recommend some sort of punishment -- at least a censure. But if Conyers joined in that kind of recommendation, he faced the danger of being branded a "sellout." But he also knew that if Powell was to retain his seat, the committee report would've to be unanimous. Fearing that the committee would fragment -- and so aid those bitter-enders in the House who wanted to throw Powell out -- Conyers decided to work for unity within the committee. He would go along with proposals that censured Powell, as long...
...Conyers got what he wanted; it was at least conceivable that Powell would be sworn in. Conyers emerged as a primary architect of the save-Powell campaign, and his remarks in the report stamped him as anything but a "sellout." Perhaps most important, his personal views -- considerably and understandably more sympathetic to Powell than almost anybody else in Congress-did not pre cent him from playing a major role in de liberations with eight other representatives for more conservative than...
...sellout opening-night crowd of 2,000 agreed that Karajan's confidence in Karajan was justified. Director Karajan swept away the clumping athletics and far-out allegory of most recent Walküres. If what was left was often static staging, it was well coordinated with the music, which Conductor Karajan molded superbly. He toned down the singers' usual tendency to bellow and brought out a fresh quality of refinement through subtly shaded dynamics and sensitively modeled phrases. "Chamber music of the soul," rhapsodized one critic, while others looked ahead to the addition of Das Rheingold next year...
Cornell's Ivy hockey champions attracted Watson Rink's only sellout crowd last season, but the Big Red's 1967 visit tomorrow night, coming on a midweek holiday, may not draw a similar audience. That would leave the B.C.-Harvard game in January as this season's only full house (out of nine dates). Watson is not one of the bigger college rinks, but for some reason--be it Harvard sports spectator apathy, the long cold walk across the Larz Anderson Bridge, or the departure of Gene Kinasewich and Eastern supremacy it is also one of the emptiest. The average...
...Harvard hockey team will have to fight to regain its share of the Ivy League lead when it plays at Brown this afternoon. The game has long been a sellout but will be carried live at 3:30 p.m. over Channel...