Finlay Wins Mile In Upset Triumph At Eastern Meet; FINLAY WINS MILE AT EASTERN MEET

Money is giving professional sports their biggest opportunities and biggest headaches since World War II.  

Big Money and Professional Sports: Vexing Problems Go With Affluence; Big Money and Professional Sports: Vexing Problems Accompany Affluence

PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM" is a droll spoof aimed more at the heart than the head, a puckish satire of contemporary mores based on the conquering of chapped lips by two British scientists in 1860. In his engaging way, Mr. Allen has given us not so much a play as three acts with a beginning middle and end that build to a climax in the theater.  

Play It Again, Woody; Say It Again, Woody Allen

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MICHAEL KAHN has survived the first lap of his drive to revitalize the American Shakespeare Festival of Stratford, Conn. The new artistic director, having endured the usual manic-depressive stages that attend the planning of any repertory and the assembling of a company, sighed deeply over coffee the other day and said, "If I hadn't just lost a director, I could have given you the whole story."  

' Hamlet'-Why Not Take All of Him?; ' Hamlet' -- Why Not Take All of Him?

Economists Join Voices and Result Is a Fugue; Economists Perform A Fugue

Sen E M Kennedy announces Sen Judiciary Subcom will soon issue rept on refugee problems around world; reptdly favors expanding authority and resources of UN High Comr Prince Sadruddin to aid refugees

KENNEDY TO SEEK U.N. RELIEF FORCE; He Will Ask Senate Backing for an Emergency Unit to Aid Biafrans and Others

former Sec Udall says he bears responsibility for decision last yr to permit drilling in Santa Barbara Channel, int; says he is 'sickened' by damage; says he asked Interior Dept experts for opinions on drilling and there was no dissent; says question of tighter regulations never came up, although geological conditions in area were known to be unstable; says Interior Dept experts apparently had no doubts about regulations; Hickel meets with Interior Dept aides and orders study of geological conditions in area; Udall expresses some doubt that drilling should ever be resumed in channel; Teague says he hopes drilling will be permanently stopped; lauds Hickel; Udall says he will not criticize Hickel; Udall and Teague fear effects of slick

Drilling Decision Blamed

The New York Knickerbockers varied their act a bit, but came out with the same old result -- victory -- last night before a roaring capacity crowd of 19,500 at Madison Square Garden.  

Knicks Defeat Bullets, 106 to 100;; LATE RALLY WINS

Comment on wariness and watchful waiting characterizing trading trend as investors await concrete Govt action to curb inflation

Investors Are Awaiting Action From Washington; The Week in Finance:

Serpent (The): A Ceremony: (By J-C Van Itallie) Open Theater; W Kerr rev

What If Cain Did Not Know How to Kill Abel?; How Did Cain Kill Abel?

J Simon article on censorship discusses MPAA rating system and legal dispute over Swedish film I Am Curious-Yellow; illus

Getting Furious Over 'Curious'; Getting Furious Over 'Curious'

Denver Team Wins Dartmouth Carnival; DENVER CAPTURES WINTER CARNIVAL

Another wave of speculation has rolled into Wall Street, just as everybody was getting accustomed to the idea that the stock market would be on the skids for a while.  

Speculative Wave Rolling On; Speculation on Amex Propels Many Issues

PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 8 -- It was a lost weekend for Columbia's defending Ivy League basketball champions.  

COLUMBIA LOSES TO PENN, 91 TO 81; Lions Suffer 2d Defeat in Row -- 35 for Bilsky

Great Neck votes, 3-2, to adept busing plan; community still divided over issue

GREAT NECK BOARD ADOPTS BUS PLAN; Schools in Affluent L.I. Area to Take 45 Negro Pupils From City -- Vote Is 3-2

WASHINGTON -- "What we require," a White House official explained, "is a demonstration of willingness by the Soviet Union to lower the level of political tensions in the Middle East, something more than words."  

While Trying to Calm the Mideast

WASHINGTON -- President Nixon says he is no "halfworlder," who sees a crisis in one part of the globe and ignores more stable areas in another. As one Washington observer remarked, Mr. Nixon has turned his first priority to the problems of Europe, instead of renewing America's wartime ties with its allies in Vietnam.  

A 'One-Worlder' Looks to Europe

comment on ASE efforts to curb speculation; illus

LINDSAY ORDERS A RENT ROLLBACK FOR 600,000 UNITS; Says Uncontrolled Housing Must Rescind 'Excessive' Rises or City Will Act

Repr Patman may probe plan by C G Rebozo, close Pres Nixon friend, and C V W Trice Jr to build Miami center for Cuban refugee businessmen; SBA has guaranteed gross return of $2.4-million in rentals over 20 yrs; Trice sees maximum return of 5% a yr; controversy, reptd by Miami Herald, centers on close Rebozo ties with SBA regional admr T A Butler; little damage to Nixon seen since plan was completed under Johnson Adm

PRESIDENT MOVES FOR WIDE REVIEW OF NEW PROGRAMS; He Asks Agencies to Study Legislative Proposals by Administration Teams

PETIT DUC, $43, TAKES SEMINOLE; Funny Fellow 1 3/4 Lengths Back, With 2-1 Iron Ruler Third at Hialeah

L Longo reaffirms Ital Communist party's strong opposition to intervention in Czech, s to party cong, Bologna; at same time, he withdraws objections to USSR-proposed world conf of Communist parties; 2 positions widely identified as part of arrangement worked out in Moscow recently by E Berlinguer, Longo's likely successor; among Ital party problems are stresses resulting from USSR intervention in Czech

ITALIAN RED CHIEF RENEWS CRITICISM OF CZECH INVASION; But Longo Also Withdraws Opposition to a Meeting of Party Leaders in Moscow

NASA repts research team headed by Dr R T Whitcomb has designed aircraft wing that will greatly increase craft speed and range by lessening turbulence of air flowing over wing at speeds verging on speed of sound; design reduces curvature of surfaces on top side of wing over central portion and increases curvature toward rear; model illus; design is adaptable to both civilian and mil craft

New Wing Designed for Faster Planes; New Wing Designed for Faster Planes

" One of our trailers has been hit!" So goes the alert over the two-way radio system of a trucking company, and immediately hundreds of drivers start looking for the missing vehicle. The alert also triggers hundreds of telephone calls under a voluntary system in which the company incurring the loss calls three other truckers and each in turn calls three, and so on.  

Hijackers Find Easy Pickings; Hijackers Finding Easy Pickings Here

It was Lyndon Johnson's fate to be the majority leader of the odd coalition that brought Lyndon Johnson down. He played the hawk to Ho Chi Minh's feints for peace. He acted the boor to the culture mongers who judged him uncouth. He diddled a press that doubted his credibility. He stuffed his ears against the youths crying out for communication.  

The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson; By Eric F. Goldman. 531 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $8.95.

Jimmy Lee Smith Jr. is an American former professional football who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars. He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers. With the Cowboys, he won two consecutive Super Bowls over the Buffalo Bills.

Jimmy Smith, American football player

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George Francis "Gabby" Hayes was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered, cantankerous, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy stars William Boyd, Roy Rogers and John Wayne.

February 9, 1969

Headlines from February 9, 1969

Finlay Wins Mile In Upset Triumph At Eastern Meet; FINLAY WINS MILE AT EASTERN MEET

Big Money and Professional Sports: Vexing Problems Go With Affluence; Big Money and Professional Sports: Vexing Problems Accompany Affluence

Play It Again, Woody; Say It Again, Woody Allen

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' Hamlet'-Why Not Take All of Him?; ' Hamlet' -- Why Not Take All of Him?

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The Beatles [White Album]

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Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations

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