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LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...area. This is the style that has been passed from generation to generation on isolated farms where music is about the only recreation that doesn't smack of sin. The group that won the $25 prize as the best oldtime band, the Blue Ridge Boys of Winston-Salem, N.C., learned all of their music "from relatives" and are duly modest about their accomplishments: asked why he though the band had won, Banjoist Paul Idol replied Well, we all started on a tune exactly at the same time, and we stopped exactly at the same time...
...spontaneous, some highly selective arson campaigns were apparently planned to destroy stores' credit records and give ghetto residents a financial reprieve. "Don't grab the groceries," one mother told her son, "grab the book." Many apparently also grabbed cash. Said Chicago's Cook County jail warden Winston Moore: "Never have I seen such rich prisoners." The average adult looter arrested in his territory, according to Moore, had $300 to $400 on his person, and even youngsters "had over $100 on them...
...losses trimmed Labor's Com mons majority to 74, down from the comfortable 97 won two years ago. The elections showed an 18.2% swing to the Tories, the biggest switch between the two parties since the surprise result that ousted Winston Churchill in 1945. If elections were held now, on the basis of last week's count the Conservatives would win 420 of the 630 seats in the Commons, picking up no fewer than 270 from Labor. "If the government cannot reverse its present unpopularity," warned the London Times, "there will inevitably be a further political crisis...
...Kanuth--for the umpteenth time this year--was matched against a giant. But playing his rugged, pushing defense Kanuth held the 6-9 John Winston to 10 points, many of them late in the game...