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When Tenor Richard Tucker, 60, set off for Alaska for a concert, he promised his grandchildren that he would have his picture taken driving a dog team. Arriving in Anchorage, however, Tucker found no snow. Gamely he dressed up in a fur-trimmed anorak and posed his wife Sara in the sled, then waved a whip above five puzzled huskies. He was not so happy when the dogs set up a wail reminiscent of / Pagliacci. "Mush!" he cried, and swung the whip in his wife's direction saying, "It's the first time in more than 35 years...
Muscatine and Dizenfeld nearly ended up battling it out with the second Harvard-Radcliffe team, Maude Wood and Tucker Boynton. But Wood and Boynton fell prey to the Green in the semifinals by a 10-5 score. The pair nearly went the distance after a 10-2 victory against Yale and a close 11-9 win against Williams...
...Berlin journalist named Joseph Roth put this sensitivity into a fine novel, which Eva Tucker has translated beautifully. The novel tells about three generations of the Trotta family, beginning with the grandfather, a Slovene peasant named Joseph who accidentally saves his emperor's life at the Battle of Solferino. Afterwards everyone calls the peasant the hero of Solferino--even the schoolbooks retell the lies about him--and he becomes a baron...
...Incredible String Band, the Elvin Bishop Band and the Marshall Tucker Band finish up the weekend at the Cape Sunday night. The string Band is English and plays olde folke stuff, with lots of mandolins and other esoterica, and is generally soft and pleasant, sometimes extraordinarily lovely. Elvin Bishop was the lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...
Speaking for the majority, Justice William Rehnquist declared that the law "cannot realistically require that policemen investigating serious crimes make no errors whatsoever." Barring Tucker's statements at the trial was a sufficient response to the police failure to tell him he could have a free lawyer. The testimony of Tucker's friend, Rehnquist concluded, could properly be used because it served the trial purpose of discovering the pertinent facts. Moreover, banning the testimony was not likely to deter similar police misconduct in the future, since the police misconduct in this case preceded Miranda...