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...Over a period of years," says a songwriter who has worked closely with him, "Phil developed certain characteristics -reclusiveness, craziness in the studio -and after a while he let them take over." Adds a young record producer who spent a long and disenchanting night watching Spector thrash around with the Dion album: "His records were great, but he's a mean mother." Spector himself admits to a certain amount of struggling during this time. "Working with Leonard Cohen was more of a writing experience," he told TIME'S Robert Goldstein. "He's not a Lennon or McCartney...
...Jacques Chirac and China's Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) climbed to the second floor of the newly repainted Hotel de Godefroy. There they peered briefly into Room 16, where nearly 60 years ago the late Chou En-lai met with fellow Chinese students to thrash out many of the ideas that led eventually to the Communist takeover of the world's most populous nation. Hua's pilgrimage to Chou's onetime cubicle may have been the sentimental high point of his seven-day visit to France, his starting point for a three...
After suffering an opening loss to Villanova, UMass came back to thrash a hapless Maine squad last Saturday, 38-14. They also lost a scrimmage with Columbia early in the season, but the transitive law, though it works in mathematics, does not necessarily apply to college football (what laws do?), and as Harvard coach Joe Restic said yesterday, "We have no way of knowing what players played and for how long...
...optimistic alumnus might say that nobody expected Harvard to thrash Yale. 8-1. And, he might go on, if that was difficult, beating Princeton is "impossible." Maybe it will take a little longer than the one hour and 38 minutes Harvard took to put away the Elis...
Actually, the working lawyers who would have to thrash out a conventions procedures do not share the professors' fears. Attorney General Griffin Bell has said that he believes Congress could limit a convention's agenda; an American Bar Association study from 1974 agrees, as long as Congress passes the necessary legislation. Furthermore, most of the bills that the states are passing to ask Congress to summon a convention themselves stipulate that budget-balancing should be the only issue on its agenda. Congressmen, too, though opposed to the whole idea of a convention, would obviously prefer one with narrow authority...