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...Highway Call early this fall, and it's been on the record player pretty much ever since, though I've never tried to figure out why until now. I haven't always been so neglectful: a couple of years ago when Merle Haggard and John Prine began to wrest the stereo from Dylan and The Dead, it was clearly something to deal with, a question of sanity. But Betts seems like a more innocent orientation. The lead guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band comes out with a solo album, it starts spinning in my room--so what? The guy never...
...seems the best of a highly domesticated breed. It is true that Star-Producer Michael Landon looks as if he just stepped out of a unisex beauty salon on the Strip rather than 430 episodes of Bonanza. His unwillingness to express anything but for bearance as he struggles to wrest a living from his farm also strains credulity. On the other hand, his problems often lead the Ingalls family into livelier action sequences than competing shows offer. Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic and moralizing narration that is the most obvious of the many trials The Waltons inflicts...
...showdown worthy of "High Noon," with Bond's 12-meter yacht Southern Cross rated as the best shot in the history of the event to wrest the awkward Silver trophy from its secure position in the headquarters of the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan. Twenty-one other challengers had tried before to take the cup home, but none had succeeded. THIS, the pundits predicted, was to be the year that the United States could lose, and the Cross would be the boat...
...fitting that Putnam should succeed Bennett as treasurer, in light of his original role in the move to wrest power from Bennett, it is ironic that Cabot should succeed Bennett as the new portfolio manager: Cabot's uncle was Paul C. Cabot '21, former Harvard treasurer and co-founder of State Street Management and Research and Bennett's mentor. It was Cabot senior who trained Bennett and hand-picked him as his successor at State Street and Harvard. But the younger Cabot has already proven himself to also be wary of the financial management style his uncle and Bennett brought...
Peter Tetlow had the unenviable task of trying to wrest some Eastern distance freestyle titles from the clutches of Haydon, but nevertheless became the first Harvard swimmer ever to break the 16-minute barrier in the mile, and 4:40 in the 500. Freshman Ted Fullerton cleaned up in the breastrokes, and Tim Neville used his super psych to blitz the field in the 50 free. Some great swims, some even greater times, and an even more amazing season. The fact that the Eastern title won't be Harvard's for at least another year is really the least...