Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...band played well, never drowning singers out, but its sound sometimes became a bit muddied on the long trip from the back of the Loeb stage into the auditorium. During the entr'acte, when the curtain which hid the musicians lifted and the spot shone on them for a change, the murk cleared, and the audience could pay some attention to the type of music Ellington wrote without singers' personalities intruding...
...higher prices to offset some of Iran's export shortfall of 5.5 million bbl. per day, the net world loss of 2.5 million bbl. has still started what some oilmen describe as a wild scramble for crude in the free market. Since mid-December the spot price has nearly doubled, to at least $22 a barrel, vs. the OPEC cartel's price of $13.34. This windfall profit for European oil companies and oil traders acting as middlemen has riled the producing nations, which once again are wielding their monopoly power. They want higher prices for all their...
...cram course as festival. This year, thanks to the prodigious efforts of the theater's staff and the resident actors, one could attend, within the space of two days, six plays and three workshop productions. Playwrights, like Thoroughbreds, are notoriously unpredictable. The best one can do is to spot a "natural...
Four Crimson fencers did have winning records on the day. Captain Gene Vastola, despite fencing somewhat lackadaisically, went 3-0 to improve his Ivy record on the year to 13-2 and almost ensure him the top spot on the first-team all-Ivy squad. Epeeman Rob Kaplan also swept past all three of his opponents, while sabremen Rob Homer and Richard Gillette each won twice...
John Heller turned in a remarkable performance in the "C" division tourney. After winning his first two matches easily, Heller, who played at the ninth spot for the Crimson for much of the year, took Penn number five man Bill Lukashok to five games before being eliminated, 3-2. Meanwhile, Chuck Elliott, the Crimson's other "C" division player, won three matches in a row before losing to Penn's undefeated captain Tom Wolf in the quarterfinals...