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Only now and then were there flashes of the old fun and games. He was thinking, he said, about going into business-manufacturing "Sonny Listen Sit-Down Stools." He hinted at a sinister plot to cheat him out of his title. "All I want is justice," he said. "I'll have 15 people flown in from the U.N. to observe the fight." He promised to wear his championship belt into the ring, "and if I lose, I'll give it to him right there." He guaranteed a knockout, briefly reverted to verse to name the round: Nine will...
...exception of Daniel Freudenberger as Alfieri the lawyer-narrator who seemed dimly aware that his part didn't belong in the play, the leads were uniformly splendid. Maeve Kinkead (Catherine) played a flighty coquette in the early scenes, perhaps, and Anne Bernstein (Bea) was a bit too much the sit-down, have-some-soup Molly Goldberg--but both more than redeemed themselves in the second act, which built enormously on all levels...
More than 2500 students at the University of California at Berkeley ended their marathon sit-down last night, as President Clark Kerr announced that the University would negotiate their demands next Monday...
Married. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, 26, Soviet cosmonette who on June 16 became the first woman in space; and Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolayev, 34, third Soviet cosmonaut; in a civil ceremony at Moscow's Wedding Palace, followed by a televised reception featuring songs, dances, a sit-down dinner for 300, and Nikita Khrushchev performing as father of both bride and groom, in which role he hoisted 21 toasts to the couple (sample: "May you have radar to avoid the griefs and obstacles of life...
...last year, Casimir's band began playing sit-down music in a club called Preservation Hall. Now, taking turns with other jazzmen of their greying generation, his Young Tuxedo musicians play to attentive audiences who come to tune students' ears to the originators of New Orleans jazz. For many players, though they have spent their lives in jazz, a job at Preservation Hall means the first real payday in a long time. The hall is managed by Allan and Sandra Jaffe, two jazz connoisseurs from Philadelphia, who run it as a labor of love. At the door, customers...