Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others. Ella with Duke, Ella with Basie, Ella with Blue Oyster Cult, shoot, I can listen to her anytime. Whether she's playing with, or in front of The World's Greatest Jazz Band I'm not sure, but I'm told she still has her stuff, in spite of some years and some eye problems. Her recent work is primarily interpretive, owing to a decline in big bands, but she can interpret Lennon-McCartney as well as anyone, and an evening with TWGJB ought to prod her into a few standards. Somehow, no one should miss this...
...spite of his wife's occasional remonstrances, Veteran Actor Sir Ralph Richardson, 70, rides a motorcycle daily when he can. "I had my first motorcycle at 16 and am unable to say when I'll have my last," he explained in Sydney. Australia, where he will be starring in William Douglas-Home's play, Lloyd George Knew My Father. Invited to have a look at a new German BMW, Sir Ralph suddenly took off for a spin. "Sorry, dear," he said later to his wife. "The infernal machine got the better...
...That Ain't Good)," and others. Ella with Blue Oyster Cult, shoot, I can listen to her anytime. Whether she's playing with, or in front of The World's Greatest Jazz Band, I'm not sure, but I'm told she still has her stuff, in spite of some years and some eye problems. Her recent work is primarily interpretive, owing to a decline in big bands, but she can interpret Lennon-McCartney as well as anyone, and an evening with TWGJB ought to prod her into a few standards. Somehow, no one should miss this...
...President Nixon argues, he did not know until late March how thoroughly Watergate had tainted his Administration, it was largely because he had deliberately kept himself so many removes from reality. Now, in spite of the lesson of Watergate, a year after the case broke Nixon remains unwilling to emerge from the cocoon of his own making. He never watches television news programs, let alone the Watergate hearings-though he could argue that he cannot afford the time. Press reports are still passed up to him in summaries prepared by the White House staff...
...Faculty on May 15 rejected the calendar proposal, in spite of its overwhelming student support and unanimous endorsement by the Faculty Council. After numerous Faculty members cited their objections to a schedule change, the Faculty voted, 79-63, to recommit the "early semester" plan to the Faculty Council for further consideration, and thus made calendar revision by Fall 1974 unlikely. Marion C. Belliveau, Faculty Registrar, has said that the schedule could be changed by that date only if the Faculty approved a new calendar by its first meeting next October...