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THERE is something about covering a sports assignment that stirs memories of youth, fresh air, rising early to get some extra warm-up time before the game. Correspondent Peter Range had that sensation in Technicolor as he spent last week with the current issue's cover subject, Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins. Range, like many journalists a night person, had to switch to "Shulatime," which means attending Mass and having breakfast before sunup. "After three days," says Range, "I felt like a clean liver again...
...magic. Anyway, BBA is not the holding action Beck claims his two previous bands were. They are new to each other, though, and their Boston show Tuesday last opened with a vague feeling of indirection. The song was new, and, as a show opener, had a definite warm-up feeling to it, while making sure the audience recognized Beck's tendencies towards the music...
Observing the national conventions this year did not offer Norman Mailer the physical perils or intellectual brinks he has relished in the past. That turns out to be a good thing. There is not nearly so much of what he calls his "ego liberation"-those warm-up exercises and public temperature takings that have long since turned into self-parody. Mailer can get right down to the business of sniffing out the true spirit of the occasion. The result is that St. George and the Godfather (much of which originally appeared in LIFE) is a very brisk report...
...Radcliffe tennis team aced the Pine Manor Junior College girls, 5-0, yesterday afternoon on Radcliffe's clay-courts, in a promising warm-up match for this weekend's New England Women's Intercollegiates at Yale...
Today's contest will be an excellent warm-up for Saturday's clash with Princeton, one of the Ivy League's top contenders. Springfield has compiled a 12-3 record over the season, but the Indians face a weaker schedule and have lost to a Harvard victim, University of Massachusetts...