Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hosenball pronounced himself altogether puzzled by the government's action. He has been a staffer on the respected Evening Standard for five months, covering routine local fare. But for three years before that, he worked for London's Time Out, a weekly counterculture magazine, and developed a reputation as an effective anti-Establishment reporter. In 1975, for instance, Hosenball published the names and described the activities of CIA employees in Britain. On the basis of that work, the Washington Post used Hosenball as a legman on a separate CIA story...
...flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner is still my favorite pianist. He has not surrendered to the electric piano (in fact, he even tried his hand on the harpsichord in one album) and has maintained a high standard of romanticism in jazz. His style is best when in quartet, but his larger orchestra numbers can be fairly interesting...
Scapino retains only the barest skeleton from the Moliere play. A standard comedy plot (a pair of lovers, hidden identities, knowing rogues, fodish parents) is used as a jumping-off point for an evening of slapstick and mime. Scapino is a showcase rather than a play; its success depends on the comic talents of the actors in a show which has no pretensions to dramatic integrity. The script demands a veritable catalogue of comedy skills, ranging from stand-up routines to sexual sightgags to circus acrobatics...
...Democrat, according to nearly complete returns, won the popular vote (51% to 48%). George Gallup continued polling until three days before the election and gave Ford an edge of 47% to 46%. Louis Harris wound up a day later and found Carter ahead by 46% to 45%. Given the standard 3 point margin for error, all three polling organizations did well in detecting a close race...
Died. William J. Sparks, 71, co-inventor of butyl rubber and the holder of 145 patents; after a long illness; in Coral Gables, Fla. Joining the Standard Oil Co. (now Exxon) in 1936 as a research chemist, he soon helped develop the synthetic rubber so vital to Allied forces during World War II. Sparks often expressed his concern that young scientists be taught an obligation to society. Said he: "Science without purpose is an art without responsibility...