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...Viet Nam has brought forth excellent work: Ron Glasser's 365 Days, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, James Webb's Fields of Fire, Phil Caputo's A Rumor of War. Now, more veterans seem to be emerging from their long, isolated silence. They have recorded their memories of the war in two new oral histories: Al Santoli's Everything We Had and Mark Baker's Nam. A group of actors led by Tom Bird have formed the Veterans Experience Theater Company in New York City...
...Haight-Ashbury boarding house picks up Tony and he becomes some sort of mythical rock and roll guru. He composes (Dylan's folk) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" on a bus, the band plays (Jefferson Airplane's rock) Somebody to Love" in concert and later (Jimmy Webb's, pop) "Up, Up, and Away" in a studio...
...Alan Webb, general manager of the Cleveland Browns, said that he had gained some "knowledge," and Ron Wolf, general manager of the Oakland Raiders, said, "I'm glad I came." Both declined further comment...
DIED. Russell Procope, 72, dapper, goateed jazz clarinetist and saxophonist who was a fixture in the Duke Ellington Orchestra; in New York City. After playing with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson and the John Kirby Sextet, Procope joined the Duke in 1945, bringing his low, mellow sound to such Ellington compositions as 4:30 Blues and Swamp...
...deepest concern to Westerners is the demand that the growth will make on the water supply. Throughout the region's history, water, or the lack of it, has determined the pace of development. Historian Walter Prescott Webb once called the Mountain West "virtually an oasis civilization," and ranchers formerly fought pitched battles to control water holes for their herds. As long ago as 1893, the explorer Major John Wesley Powell warned the First International Irrigation Conference in Los Angeles: "I tell you, gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation of water rights, for there...