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...team traveled Wednesday to Haverford to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the nation's first inter-collegiate soccer match. In June, the men's heavyweight crew defeated Yale in the 115th renewal of the oldest intercollegiate athletic competition. Some time in November, the University will reach the not-so-tender age of 345. Ah, to be old--and first; two honored Harvard traditions...
...waiting lists of up to four years for their matchless weapons. Over most of the 3 million arid Highland acres, where Lagopus scoticus breeds and feeds, the birds are the only source of income for the lairds. The owners' expenses can be considerable. Since grouse exist only on tender heather shoots, the lands must be burned over once a year to provide new growth and must be patrolled constantly to protect the young birds from predatory varmints. Moreover, the castles and stately mansions have become horrifically expensive to heat and maintain. However many brace of birds (the British, like...
...seems to have exchanged "the bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge." Hold Out is here in part tostatethat "the poet laureate of California rock" has made that trade and is living up to his promise to "be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender," and in part to entreat Browne's long-time idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea are delivered with the trademark wry sincerity that has for five previous albums saved Browne's deep-hitting croon...
Which really is a pity, because the young actors who compose the cast exude talent. Barry Miller plays Ralph Garcey (ne Raoul Garcia), a Freddy Prinze worshipper, with precocious elan, displaying a range of emotions unusual at such a tender age. And Gene Anthony Ray, as dazzling dancer Leroy Johnson, shows an uncharacteristic ease with his role. But none of the characters is capable of shattering the wall of self-centeredness the script erects around each of them. As the mundane screenplay often says, they "can't relate...
...staff members available. Says Dr. Gerald Klerman, the U.S. Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health administrator: "There are a good many nonprofessionals feeding, walking and checking on patients. They use the hospital system as a way to keep down unemployment, and I think this results in a lot of tender loving care." Patients also are kept busy at such tasks as gardening or cleaning their rooms, an approach that impresses U.S. visitors...