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...word decadence, like an iridescent bubble, can be blown too large; it will burst with too much inflation of significance. In any case, decadence is too much a word of simplification. The U.S. is too complicated, housing too many simultaneous realities, to be covered with one such concept. Sub cultures of decadence exist, as they have in all societies. The amplifications of the press and television may make the decadence seem more sensational and pervasive than it really...
...encouraging. He distributed stacks of 30-question evaluation forms to Cabinet members, with instructions that they grade their high-ranking subordinates according to ability, performance and loyalty to the Administration. The forms were to be returned to him on Friday, so that he could begin deciding who at the sub-Cabinet level should be ousted...
...elections. Michael Manley, the socialist leader, talked Marley into giving a free concert in his behalf. Three days before the concert Marley was relaxing in his mansion-commune with the whole band, friends, family and hangers-on, when two cars drove up and unloaded several men armed with sub-machine guns and automatic pistols. A bullet grazed Rita Marley's head as she tried to escape with five children in tow. One gunman, a young and jittery kid of about sixteen, pointed his weapon at Marley and sprayed. One bullet grazed Marley's heart, one pierced his arm. Don Taylor...
...Skylab watch parties from Minneapolis to Manhattan. Guests at the "first and last annual greater New Orleans Skylab observation party" were asked to bring binoculars, telescopes and crash helmets. Jay Schatz, owner of a luxury high-rise apartment building on Chicago's Near North Side, scheduled a sub-basement party for tenants that would begin two hours before Skylab was expected to break up. Radio stations eagerly joined the hoopla. Ohio's WNCI-FM in Columbus offered $98,000 to the first Ohioan bringing in a locally found piece of the Skylab wreckage within 98 hours of impact. In Atlanta...
...Crimson's best individual finisher was co-captain Jim Dales, who pieced together consecutive sub-80 rounds (78, 79) for a total of 157. Chip Raffi finished a shot back of Dales with 158. Raffi had the lowest round of any Harvard player when he uncorked a 77 on Friday after opening with an 81. Glenn Alexander, who played at number one for the linksters and who usually turns out sub-80 rounds with assembly-line regularity, carded rounds...