Word: waller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE at the Boston Tea A local group called Quill has just finished its good-to-dreary slot with a bang-up African number. The Jeff Beck Group now quickly marches in, Mick Waller at the drums, Jeff Beck prophetically brandishing his guitar. The singer Rod Stewart in burnt sienna flush velours pants that fit tight, an ornate silver cross hanging from his neck, has slender features and a bouffant hair-do and an impish grin. Ron Wood, on bass guitar, stakes out his area and the music flares like a newly struck match. Stewart sings "Rock me baby/Keep-on-rocking-me-baby/ Rock...
...index finger high over his head. He 'plays' a long beep and then a long deep wavering note. Stewart sings slow blues style, "My baby, she knows how to spread her wings." Subterrenean thoughts of rolling thighs float around. Jeff Beck and Ron Wood exchange looks and laugh. Mick Waller keeps slashing at the drums, putting out his sharp rattling rumble. One forgets about the Boston Tea Party's light show, completely absorbed in the actors. Stewart points at Beck saying, 'Just look at him, look at him go'. Jeff Beck is hovering over the drums at Waller's shoulder...
Five years ago, Fletcher Waller was toiling 14 hours a day as a Bell & Howell vice president in Chicago. "I loved sailing," he says, but he could never get his boat out. So, at 52, he quit his job and started his own business-renting boats and teaching sailing to overworked executives. Waller's income is now less than his former income tax, but he laughs at Who's Who for dropping him, extolls the magic effect on his marriage. "Why," he says, "we fell in love...
...significant pharmacological effect on driving skill and judgment of even low levels of blood alcohol content, and considering that three-quarters of the adult population of the United States uses alcohol in greater or lesser quantities, it readily came to be assumed, in the words of Dr. Julian A. Waller, "that the majority of drinking accidents are caused by the majority of drinking drivers, namely, the social drinkers." On this basis widespread and comparatively severe legislation was enacted to discourage drinking while driving...
...Waller High, a committee of eight teachers and eight students-all elected by students-is involved in a candid dialogue. The kids even advise the teachers on curriculum changes...