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Died. Michael Flanders, 53, gruff-voiced English musical comedian best known for his long partnership with Schoolmate Donald Swann in their wacky At the Drop of a Hat revues; of an apparent heart attack; while vacationing in North Wales. Crippled by polio during World War II, the bulky, bearded Flanders performed from a wheelchair, while the spindly, cricketlike Swann hunched over his piano diffidently, squeaking multilingual ballads. Their routines were a confection of bluff nonsense ("If God had meant us to fly, he'd never have given us the railway"). Flanders and Swann entertained cabaret and theater audiences...
...Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court passed over its most recent opportunity to strike a blow for freedom. Indeed, by sustaining the order of the federal district court requiring the massive busing of schoolchildren to achieve racial balance in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County schools, the Supreme Court seems to have closed the door to any hope that our courts will return to a reasonable interpretation of the equal protection clause. Despite statements to the contrary--statements constructed upon a tortuous use of the English language...
...Evening of British Comedy involves excerpts, presumably, from Beyond the Fringe, Monty Python (and his Flying Circus), Flanders's & Swann's At the Drop of a Hat, and the Goon Shows of which I admit I've never heard. The others are all funny. Tomorrow and Saturday, 8 and 10 p.m. in the Dunster House...
...S.R.I, investigators of Uri Geller, is singled out in The Secret Life of Plants as a reputable scientist who has been experimenting with the response of one chicken egg to the breaking of another. He is also a promoter of the bizarre and controversial cult of Scientology, which Ingo Swann, another psychic tested by S.R.I., also practices. William Targ, a Putnam executive, recently contracted to publish Astronaut Ed Mitchell's forthcoming book, Psychic Exploration, A Challenge for Science. At the signing, Targ stated that "the real race now between the Russians and us is in the area of sciences like...
...community in which most people have read Swann's Way, the statement is concise. If the analogy between the real and fictional situations is accurate, the statement quickly explains a complex relationship far more accurately than detailed discussion...