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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traffic. I marvel at the things Steve Winwood did before the age of twenty. Total artistic control of Spencer Davis's group at sixteen, Dear Mr. Fantasy at seventeen, playing with Clapton at nineteen, it goes on. Winwood may be the most talented person making music today, his virtuosity on keyboards, bass and guitar makes me think Stills has a lotta gall trying to play those three instruments. Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory is a shade better than Low Spark. It's one of the few albums I can listen to, in its entirety, at one sitting. And what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop | 2/8/1973 | See Source »

...Four planes of the jet-type dropped their bombs together to destroy my Village and returned to shoot twice in the same day. They dropped eight napalm bombs, the fire from which burned all my things, sixteen buildings along with our possessions inside, as well as maiming our animals. Some people who didn't reach the jungle in time were struck and fell. Dying most pitifully. By the time the fire died down it was dark. Everyone came out of hiding to look at the ashes of their houses...

Author: By David R. Ignatins, | Title: Life Under an Air War | 1/19/1973 | See Source »

...beautiful because the climate is cool and misty. In the mornings, log shrouds the mountain. In the evening, the rays of the sun silhouette the mountain in a most charming seehe. And turning you can see the water cascading from the top of a high mountain. I am only sixteen years old, and still a student. I helped my parents with the field work as much as I could I helped with the progress of my household, as should be the case with a child who is loved...

Author: By David R. Ignatins, | Title: Life Under an Air War | 1/19/1973 | See Source »

...Sixteen members of the Faculty Council yesterday joined the resurgent opposition to American involvement in Indochina by endorsing a strong statement condemning the renewed bombing of North Vietnam...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Sixteen Members Of Faculty Council Condemn Bombing | 1/4/1973 | See Source »

...these hopes were dashed on Saturday morning. November 22. Sixteen players including the entire defensive backfield and most of the defensive line, had contracted gonorrhea from three cheerleaders at a party in Providence six weeks before THE game reported an Extra edition of the Yale Daily News, had been canceled. Yale had forfeited...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Yale Forfeits: Harvard Triumphs in THE Game | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

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