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Great Falls, Mont., knows how to whoop it up for Johannes Brahms. After hearing the blazing final chords of the Symphony No. 2 in D, townspeople jumped to their feet in a shouting five-minute ovation. As the applause started to slacken, a rancher in a sheepskin coat shouted from the balcony: "Keep on clappin' and they'll keep on play-in'!" So they did. When Conductor Maurice Abravanel, 73, and the 85 members of the Utah Symphony Orchestra responded with an encore from Handel's Water Music, the crowd in the renovated movie theater burst...
...schedule was kept light, he sometimes appeared to be distracted and often had trouble hearing because of his growing deafness. "You really had to roar at him," said a luncheon companion, "and he had some trouble with our English accents." Wallace's energy did not seem to slacken, but there was no disguising the fact that he is an invalid. Noted the Daily Telegraph: "It was a small, strained, pathetically helpless figure that was helped from car to wheelchair and back...
...oddly enough these same people who work so hard for change take so little just satisfaction in the gains that have been made that they can hardly be called happy warriors. They even exaggerate their own pessimism out of a fear that public willingness to overcome obstacles would otherwise slacken. The result is that few times will pass into history like ours, having done so little to insist on its own merits...
...disagreement over taxing oil companies' "excess profits." Instead, Nixon wants Congress to whip through a "basic bill" that would make the Administration's fuel-allocation and conservation measures legally binding. Energy Chief William E. Simon is afraid that unless these measures are quickly made mandatory, consumers will slacken their so far successful conservation efforts, particularly if the Arab oil flow resumes. Yet in its present mood of hostility to oil companies, Congress will almost certainly ignore the President's request and stick with the original Emergency Energy Act, including some provision to limit excess profits...
...Harvard will not slacken its commitment to pure science, Bok promised...