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...rhetoric consisted mostly of the repeated word "tremendous" as he watched 18 million gallons of water a minute cascading over Labrador's remote 245-ft. Churchill Falls. But everything else about Winston Spencer Churchill, 26, was suitably dashing as he donned construction helmet and oilskins for the ground breaking of the $800 million, 4,500,000-kw. Churchill Falls hydroelectric project, named for his grandfather. Ceremony over, young Winston flew back to London to resume work on another, more typically Churchillian project-a book with his father Randolph about the Israeli-Arab conflict, entitled...
...newest specialty is represented by the rising political public relations firms. Spencer-Roberts of Los Angeles is the best known because of its highly successful labors on behalf of Governor Ronald Reagan-labors that include speechwriting, committee building, primary programming, and electronic data-processing to determine the hottest issues and project voter reactions...
...Potpourri. The crew aboard the Airplane is in their middle and late 20s. Musically, they represent a kind of pop potpourri: Balin and Kantner are refugees from folk music, Drummer Spencer Dryden and Guitarist Jack Casady from jazz, Singers Jorma Kaukonen from blues and Grace Slick from pop. Together they produce a lilting, carefree music that crosses so many stylistic lines that they are the only rock group to be invited to both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Berkeley Folk Festival, not to mention gigs with the San Francisco Symphony and TV's highbrow Bell Telephone Hour...
...Died. Spencer Tracy, 67, Hollywood's master of character, who made up in art what he lacked in looks ("I've got a face," he once said, "like a beat-up barn door"); over four decades earned more Academy Award nominations (eight) than any other actor and actually won two Oscars, as the stoic Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courageous (1937) and the warmhearted Father Flanagan in Boys' Town (1938), was also memorable as Hemingway's gnarled hero in The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and as a stern jurist in Judgment at Nuremberg...
Before he delivered the Spencer Lecture last February, that great and good man of the theatre, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, noticed a casting poster for the HDC production of The Plebeians Rehearse The Uprising. Turning to the Associate Professor of English who was shepherding him around the Loeb, Sir Tyrone is said to have asked, "Isn't that the new thriller about de Sade and a lot of French lunatics?" Told that Plebeians was a recent play by Gunter Grass about Brecht, he shook his head, informed sources report, and muttered, "Jumping Jesus. Well, it's good to know...