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Tuesday, February 17,1976

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Assistant dean of students tries to keep
fraternities and administrators satisfied

By KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Staff Writer

Somewhere out there roams a bull named
Dean Palm.

And the UK assistant dean of students by the
same name couldn’t be prouder.

The animal was named as a calf for Assistant
Dean Michael Palm after he spent a summer
vacation working as a hired hand on the Guston,
Ky. farm where the calf was born. He did it, he
said, because he wanted to learn about rural life.

All the same, Palm 5 knowledge of farming
probably doesn‘t do him much good in his work
as ‘liaison” between the UK administration and
campus fraternities.

Palm 5 responsibility is seeing that the
fraternities and men s honoraries work to the
satisfaction of both students and administrators.

“I learn as much day-to-day as anybody,” he
said in a recent interview. His job, he said,
requires that he be able to deal with “atypical”
situations.

“The major reason there are university ad-
ministrators is to deal with problems that don’t

The “exceptions” could include a fraternity
house having trouble with financial planning. Dr
Palm might talk to a student with a personal
problem related to his fraternity. Regardless of
the type of problem, Palm thinks the student
should get individual attention.

“That‘s the reason people like me exist,” he
said —to dealwith students personally. He didn’t
like “red tape” when he was in school, and he
still doesn’t like it, he said.

Sitting at a small table in h's somewhat
cluttered office, the 31- year-old Eastern Illinois
University graduate talked about his views on
fraternities and their relationship to the rest of
the campus.

“The students are basically apathetic toward
fraternities and sororities,” he said. “But the
Greeks need to realize that no one is out to get
them. They tend to want to be on the defensive.”

On the other hand, he said, fraternities do
much that goes unrecognized by the general
student body. “They do innumerable projects for
the community and school,” he said. “They raise
huge amounts of money for good causes every

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havea yes-a ndno answer,” he said. “We need to year.”

deal with exceptions.”

Vietnames
refugees
find contracts
misleading

By STEVE BALLINGER
Kernel Staff Writer

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University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

ASSISTANT DEAN OF STUDENTS

Continued on page 8

Vague government contract language
has led many Vietnamese refugees to
expect cash resettlement funds from the
volunteer agencies that processed their
arrival in the United States.

When South Vietnamese refugees came
to the United States last year, the federal
government contracted with established
volunteer agencies to find sponsors and
handle much of the paperwork of reset-
tlement.

However, arrangements in the contract
for federal funding were misleading.
According to Steve Kinsley, resettlement
agency liaison, each contract specifies
that the agencies are to be paid $500 for
each refugee they process.

“It‘s easy to jump from that to thinking
that the $500 was meant to be spent in-
dividually," said Kinsley, “But it ( the total
sum) was intended to support the overall
resettlement effort."

Kinsley said that any federal funds not
used by the agencies must be returned to
the government by Sept. 30, 1977.

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Cat got your tongue?

Tigger, mascot for Haggin Hall corridor B4. noses a replica of Rodin's

”The Thinker" in the dorm office.
respond to 11gger's curiosity.

The statue presumably did not

The average expenditure by each
agency for an individual is $200, said Nell
R. Waldrop, community relations
specialist for the Kentucky Human
Resources Department. Waldrop said that
figure led many refugees to believe they
were to be paid the remaining $300. The
$200 estimate came from the Tolstoy
Foundation, one of the agencies processing
refugees, said Waldrop. _

Most of the agencies now have tight-
fisted policies that provide additional
money only for emergencies, she said.
About half of the 140 refugees irf Lexington
were paid the remaining funds because
they were processed by the US. Catholic

- Conference. Waldrop said the sponsors for

those refugees were able to obtain the
extra money because they were influential

in the Covington Diocese of the Catholic -

church.

Other organizations, such as the
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee
Service, were less generous with the
remaining money. she said. A sponsor

Area groups

By JO ANN WHITE
Kernel Staff Writer

Even while House Joint Resolution
(HJR) 7, which would rescind Kentucky’s
1972 ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA), moves through the
state legislature, campus and area
organizations are gearing up to fight
rescission.

At UK the Council on Women's Con-
cerns, a branch of Student Government, is
attempting to reorganize and ga'm a
broader base of support, according to
memba' Linda Welch.

“We want to open the council‘up to
everyone —UK faculty, staff and students
and members of the Lexington com-
munity,” Welch said.

The m-member council is “trying to
educate people so they won’t be afraid of
the ERA,” Welch said. TheCWC has

MICHAEL PALM

who asked not to be named complained the
Lutheran group had given her a
“bureaucratic run-around," refusing to
release any extra funds.

Ingrid Walter, acting director for the
Lutheran agency, said “no directives were
given for special problems” in the federal
contracts. “How could any of the agencies
keep individual accounts,” asked Walter
by phone from the agency’s New York
offices.

In addition to the difficulty of knowing
how much was spent individually for
resettlement, Walter said federal money
was most efficient when used to serve
people collectively, such as in the regional
offices the Lutheran agency operates. The
agency has processed 15,800 Vietnamese
refugees. she said.

State administrator Waldrop, who has
been working on requests for surplus funds
for Lexington-area refugees , believes the
extra money is best used when it is
distributed individually.

Continued on page 8

fight for ERA

joined forces with the Lexington Pro-ERA
Alliance to accomplish that objective.

“Lexington has a strong group of
professional women concerned about
ERA,” Welch said, referring to the
Alliance. “We are part of their petition
drive (to prevent rescission) and have set
up an information table in the Student
Center to provide people with Pro-ERA
Alliance leaflets.”

Shelley Griffith, another CWC member,
said while the information table was setup
“only two women came by who were for
rescission, aand one was undecided.”
Griffith said between 10 and 15 petition
sheets were filled with signatures during
that time. 'lhe petition carried a “rather
detailed statement against rescission,”
she said

Welch said the CWC has also sent a
lobbying group to Frankfdrt, and Griffith

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Thanks. Joni
Editor:

This is my first year here as a
graduab student. I have been very
impressed by the Kernel and its con-

tribution to the student population as"

well as the community. However. I
must take issue with you on your article
(“Joni Mitchell appeals to fans.-
disappoints remaining audience," Feb.
10) concerning the Joni Mitchell con-

cert
I must remind Assistant Managing

Editor David Brown that each concert
present a different experience for the
audience. Surely one would not expect
the same audience reaction during a
Rolling Stones’ concert as one would
during Mitchell’s performance. Mit-
chell is a superb musician and
possesses what I feel to be the purest
and most expressive ‘voice on the
current scene. Brown‘s statement
“every tune began to sound the same"
shows that he can't relate to the talents
of this fine artist. Her lyrics are meant
to be listened to and thought about. I
disagree that the highlight of the show
was "when the song ’Twisted' with the
house lights up, and had people dancing
in the aisles.”
I feel that the concert was a beautiful
display by this multi-talented in-

dividual. I experienced no "highlight,"
butra her a most entertaining evening
thatwas characterized by many multi-
facehd songs by Mitchell. I must also
remark that much to her credit Mit—
chell performed for almost two hours.
Those who can appreciate her talents
respect her for this effort.

I may have stamped my feet only
once or twice all night, but it was one
hell of a show. Thank you. Joni.

Steve Cohen .

Campus recreation
graduate assistant

Review?
Editor:

I am writing regarding your review'

(?) of the Joni Mitchell concert ("Joni
Mitchell appeals to fans; disappoints
remaining audience," Feb. l0). For
what ill-conceived reason did you
relegah the writing of this review to an
insensitive moron who obviously
neither likes nor has even bothered to
listen to Mitchell? Anyone who went to
the concert (Assistant Managing Editor
David Brown obviously didn’t) will
quickly set you straight. It was an
outstanding concert; smooth,
mellifluous. and enthralling from
beginning to end.

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Brown makes so many errors in his
review I don’t know where to begin.
First he gives the wrong title to one of
the songs he singled out to criticize
("They Danced in the Streets of
Paris??"). Second. he makes the
unbelievable remark that the crowd
was "literally bored" during Mitchell’s
first half of the concert. This was not
the case in Memorial Coliseum. so I
don't know what astub observation he
bases this on.

Then he makes the most preposterous
stabment of all. He attributes the
reference to bulldozers and parking lots
in. "Big Yellow Taxi" as an ad lib by
Mitchell in reference to the Soul'l Hill
question!!! This is incredible. The
song is about bulldozers and parking
lots ("...they paved paradiseand putup
a parking lot..."). Doyou really believe
that Mitchell knows or cares about
Lexington parking problems?

If ya: want quaking, high volume
amplification a la Kiss. David Bowie.
Alice Cooper ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
with a wildly gyrating audience then I

suggest that you get yourself some
radio-headphones. tune in to the local
heavy-acid rock station. drop some acid

and go to a basketball game
Danny Cecit
Ad Siunior

Complaint

Editor:

I wish to register a complaint
regarding those students using the
travel board. Living in Michigan. I
have problems getting rides home for
Thanksgiving and Christmas
vacations. So I resort to the Student
Cenhr travel board. Last year a fellow
offered me a ride home, decided half
way there to turn around and come
back b Lexington.

This is very inconvenient to myself
and my parents. I appreciate tran-
sportation, but those of you who
promise rides to others should carry out
your commitment or have the common
courtesy to inform your riders of a
change in plans.‘

Karen Paul
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By J.C. Norton

 

After seeing Queen at the Coliseum in
Cincinnati Feb. 13. a couple thoughts
occurred to me which might be worth .
sharing, but first. an obligatory and
brief ”review." The night started with
a competent and forgettable band
whose name I forgot along with their
'music. This inclusion of an unan-
nounced nonentity is getting to be a
habit at Riverfront leg. The Who
Concert) —an irritating habit, in fact.
which serves only todrag concerts on to
interminable length. Foghat then
.played a very nice set of familiar
rockers, marred by some equipment
foul ups, and were called back for an
encore. At last (it must have been
10:30). the house lights dimmed for
Queen, a tape played the sound'of an
orchestra tuning, a voice boomed.
”Welcome to a Nightatthe Opera," or
something like that, and Queen tore into
music from their new album with an
explosion of both aural and visual
fireworks.

To anyme who has followed this
amazing band over the years, or read
about them in the British rock press.
the performance at Cincinnati was
predictably outrageous and superb.
They are, after all, the current premier
English rock act, and since English
rock ‘n roll is approximately 5.000 times
better than American. the crowd a?
Riverfront more than got their money’s
worth. Vocalist Freddie Mercury
possesses a voice of incredible beauty.
power and nuance, shifting easily from
genie, almost baroque ballads ac-
companying himself on piano, to

violent, sensuous powerhouse rockers. .

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Still, perhaps the high point of the pre-
encore work was a long guitar solo by
Brian May, mixing lightning speed with
artful reverberation to build un-
believable 'walls of sound. It was a
virtucso performance which deserved
considerably more undivided attention
than it got, but more of that labr.

The band played two encores. with
intervening costume changes
lengthening the breaks and causing
significant numbers in the audience to
give up and leave. The first encore was
a fantastic song from the next, as yet
unreleased album, and was probably
the best piece of the night. They
finished with Mercury in his legendary
kimono, then out of kimono and in
shorts and suspenders, singing
”Jailhouse Rock." It was around
midnight when a tape of “God Save the
Queen” from "Night at the Opera"
came on the public address system to
tell ustha t, at last, they were done. Put
simply, Queen is one of the best, most
versatile bands there is.

So much for the artists. What I really
want to talk about is the audience. They
were young —very young —and to my
mind, astonishingly lacking in sense.
Throwing a lighted firecracker into a
mas of humanity is a stupid, if not a
vicious thing to do. But that, assuming
no one was blinded, can be quickly
dismissed as the behavior of one or two
morons. Whatto me is more disturbing
is their frequent inattention to a band
they’d laid out so to see and which.
iudglng from the thunderous applause.
they liked! What happened was
basically this —so long as the band
played loud, familiar 'rock riffs. the
audience was with them. But anybody
can play that. 22 Top can play-that.
What is extraordinary.about Queen is

their use of that as part of a more
complex musical conception. Their
work is fascinating because of the often
abrupt shifts, with Mercury playing a
tinkling piano and singing a lilting love
song, followed by a guitar and per-
cussion and lig ht explosion which lands
him one-half second later at center
stage, snarling at the audience in front
of a thundering rock beat and billows of
smoke. Much of the power of the rock in
this-situation lies in its counterpoint
relationship with the many other things
that this incredible band can do so
flawlessly.

But the population making up Friday
night's audience wasn’t interested in
any of that. What they want is a 4-4 beat
that they can stomp their feet to, and
that‘s all that they want. When the
music gets complicated, the audience
gets talking, and wandering around the
hall, and generally being a nuisance
and a bore. Perhaps anticipating this,
Mercury began one piano piece early in
the set with an admonition to the effect.
"We'll play rock ’n roll later, but you've
got to listen to this.“ Sadly, huge hunks
of that audience iust don't know how.

It was a frustrating state of affairs.
I'd like to have had the voice of
Jehovah, Friday night. I'd have come
roaring from the rafters with terrifying
volume and force and said something
like, "Look you! Sitdown, be quiet, and
let these people take you to places
where you have never been."

A youtlful audience which can't
listen. That's surprising to me. The
generation of rock connoisseurs that
seemed to me inevitable simply hasn't
evolved, not in Middle America at any
rate. I mean, at least half of the
audience was to years old or less when
"Sgt. Pepper" came out! When I was

the age they are now, I listened mainly
to garbage because that’s mainly all
there was. These people were raised on
the Stones. and Dylan. and the Byrds.
and Led Zep, and Pink Floyd, and Blind
Faith. I was raised in the Marvelettes
and Elvis Presley, and it has always
seemed obvious to me that a
progressive elevation and complication
of mass rock taste iust had to occur.
since all these millions of people were
being born into this amazingly diver-
sified music. That is not, however, what
has happened.

What has happened instead is an
appalling sort of regression to the
mean. What these people really like.
even in the best rock music, is what is
least unique to it, what, in fact, all rock
music. goodand bad, has always had —
volume, repetitive simple lyrics and a
constant drum —bass rhythm line. A
band like Queen obviously can do that.
and do it exceptionally well, but if you
have a talent like Roger Meddows-
Taylor playing drums, you iust dont’
want him to sit back there. bashing out
4.4 rhythms for two hours. He’d get
bored to death and, one would think, so
would his audience. Sad to say, it
appeared much of Friday night's crowd
in Cincinnati would not have been
bored. since they wanted really very
little more than the basics.

And that is sad —sad for them. and
sad for talented musicians who have
much more to show them. and
especially sad for the people in the
audience who know how to listen. but
are forced to do so through a tiresome,
distracting barrage of audience noise
and movement.

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Musicians are younger than ever
Down Beat reader poll

according to

After chipping away at a
backlogof homework for about
three hours Saturday evening, _I
decided to relax and treat myself
to a little TV. Flipping between
stations proved fruitless until I
happened upon Channel 46
(Kentucky Educational
Television) where, to 'my sur-
prise, the First Down Beat
Readers Poll program flashed on
the screen.

 

Fa' those of you who don’t
follow music closely, Down Beat
is THE bi-weekly magazine of the
contemporary music world.
Originally a jazz-blues oriented
publication, the magazine has
recently expanded its coverage to
other areas to keep up with the
various ‘ ‘fusion groups” who defy
the limitations of one word
definitions.

The program, co-hosted by
composer-pianist 'Chick Corea
arid composer-arranger Quincy
Jones, was a tribute to those
musicians whosé music and
performance was voted the best
for 1975 by the readers of Down
Beat. Understandably, because
most if the readers of the
magazine are jazz buffs, all the
performers on stage during the
program were the best jazz has to
offer —although many fine rock
and blues people abo placed well
in the poll.

What really made an im-
pression on me was the youth-
fulnes of this fine collection of
musiciars. Remembering that
rock is still in its infancy, I
thought of the “old days” when it
seemed a musician had to pay 20
or so years of “dues” before he
was accepted as a master of his
medium -whether he be a jazz
pianist or a concert violinist.

Maya Angelou
will speak
Tuesday, February 17

Most of the men who walked on
stage to play Saturday night had
not yet passed the half way mark
of life and a few, such as
drummer Lenny White and
bassist Stanley Clarke, had not
yet reached the magical age of
thirty. Yet, here they were, the
”cream of the crop” being
honrred by fans and fellow
musiciars alike. Where does this
new generation of musicians
come from?

Well, you need look no farther
than your nose. This new breed of
musiciars comes from the music
departments of colleges and
universities. Down Beat Poll
winners Chick Corea, piano;
Hubert Laws, flute; and Bill
Watrous, trombone, all out-
standing musicians, cut their
‘musiesl teeth’ in school long
before they hit the studio and
points beyond.

This week you will have the
opportunity to hear some of UK’s
fine young musicians per-
forming in concert in Memorial
Hall. Thursday, Feb. 19 at 8:15
pm. the UK Orchestra, under the
direction of Phillip Miller, will
present a concert which draws
from many phases of the or-
chestral repertoire.

The program will open with the
“full blown Germanic sounds” of

Wagner’s “Overture to Rienzi.”
James Bonnoof the School of
Music piano faculty will be guest
soloist for Joseph Haydn’s
“Concerto in G Major for Harp-
sichord and Orchestra” and the
“Concerto No. 1 for Piano and
Orchestra” by Shostakovitch.

The program will close with the'

very challenging “Second Eases
for Orchestra” by the coh-
temporary American composer
Samuel Barber.

Monday evening, Feb. 23,
Patricia Montgomery will
present a recital and lecture
entitle “The Piano Works of
Charles T. Griffes.” An often
neglected American composer,
Griffes developed a unique brand
of Impressionism which We
evident in he Op. 7 “Roman
Sketches” —four programatic
pieces based on the poetry of

, William Sharp.

Montgomery will also perform
one of his most ambitious works,
the “Pia no Sonata” of 1917-18,
written close to the end of Griffes’
short life. Both concerts are free
and open to the public.

 

Steve Layman is a graduate
student in music education. His
column appears on Tuesdays.

 

Law students plan film series

On the principle that all work
and no play makes law students
very dull people, two law
students, Gina Cullen and Rena
Gardner, have organized a film
series which will begin Friday,
Feb. 20 and run on alternate
Fridays.

Limited to UK students, faculty
and staff, the series will show at 7
and 9 pm. in the Courtroom in
the Law School Building. Tickets
are $1 at the door.

Drawing on their collective
knowledge and delight in classic
movies, Cullen and Gardner have
ordered “Dudr Soup,” starring
the Marx Brothers, for the first
film and hope to continue in this

on

motif.

The Student Bar Associat ’
funding this film and Cullen and
Gardner hope the profits will
allow them to continue the series.
At this point, Cullen says
Friday’s film is an “all or
nothing" proposition.

If all goes well with “Duck
Soup," though, the two would like
to institute a Wednesday film
series between 12 and 1 pm.
when all law students have a free

hour.
Cullen and Gardner welcome

suggestions and participation in
the series. They can be reached
in the Student Bar Association
office in the basement of the Law
School or by calling 257-1796.

“Black Americans' Contributions
to the American Way of Life."

8:00 pm.

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The new-old Lexington Opera House
(above) provides modern conveniences
and comforts while retaining the Victorian
charm of its original design.

Looking down from the balcony (right),
the ornate stage boasts perfect acoustics
throughout the theater.

Private box seats (far right) overlook the
stage and give their patrons perfect
seating and privacy.

A recently opened window shines a new
light on the recently renovated Opera
House (top right). A two-week opening
celebration begins May 7.

photos by

Stewart Bowman-

BY BEV STEVENS
Kernel Staff Writer

Great performers such as the
Barrymores, Helen Hayes, WC. Fields,
Julia Marlowe, Lillian Russell, and Sarah
Bernhardt once performed in Lexington,
back when it was called the ”Athens of the
Wes The Opera House hosted these
stars during the 1800’s when Lexington
was considered a cultural center.

This May, Lexingtonians will be able to
travel bad to the late 1800’s when the
Opera Hou5e reopens. The restored Opera
House resembles the original decor almost
completely, creating the elegant at-
mosphere of the Victorian Age in which it

was built.
The Opera House opened in 1887 and was

condemned 85 years later. By that time,
the dust, dirt and rats of a sleazy movie
theater had replaced the beauty of the
original design.

"Late in thelsummer of ’72, when the
Opera House was condemned, a thesis had
been done which described the reputation

it had of being acoustically perfect and the ‘

best one night stand outside of New York,"
said Mrs. George Carey, member of the
Lexington Civic Center Board.

"I arranged to go and see the building
and was amazed,” Mrs. Carey said. ”I
had only seen the building from the outside
and I was surprised at all the space and
potential it had."

 

Restoration began with a $2.5 million
bond issue, and through efforts of James
A. Rosas and Associates architectural
firm, the Opera House has retained its
ornate atmosphere and become a very
modern usable facility.

The renovated Opera House now has
closed circuit TV. with appropriate
lighting, air conditioning, intercom system
throughout, elevators, a stage lift, and
modern dressing and rehearsal rooms.

Butthese recent improvements have not
detracted from the Opera House’s style.
The decor is complemented by the gracious
grand staircase leading into the main
auditorium. Above the lavish floor are two
balconies with rows of plush red velvet
chairs.

Someone from the late 1800’s would
never realize the room had been redone.

There were originally six box seats in
the Opera House and now there are only
four. The ornamental plaster castings
have been removed and reproduced by
Mrs. James Ross, wife of the Opera
House’s architect. The furnishings are
very much like those in the original. Two
door frames and the mirrors in the lobby
are of European origin.

When Mrs. Ross began to work on
duplicating the plaster castings, the
original ones would crumble in her hands. ‘
They were either deteriorated or broken.

...a new ligh Sh
on an old build

converted her garage into a studio
orked for two years on remaking the
gs. She had never done anything of
art before and worked strictly on a
and error method.” No one would
after seeing the Opera House that
Ross was an amateur.

.ople are beginning to appreciate the
of something old. A great deal of
-st has been shown from
.gtonians." Mrs. Ross said.

building had become very sterile
old as a movie theatre according to
055. Now the 2nd floor is a reception

and the 3rd floor is an exhibition,

' for display. The basement has a
which will be used during in
ssion.
e actual auditorium is as close to the
alas we could get it. A false ceiling
been installed which had helped
rve the plaster work in its original
” she explained.
ry Herndon, an associate of the ar-
‘fure firm, explained that the far-
eat from the stage is about 70 feet in
eatre which holds 1,120 people and
tical tests have shown there is only
ead seat in the entire auditorium.
e wera House is a miracle. It's far
beautiful then my wildest dream.
will be lots of problems down the
but none of them will be insolvable,”

Mrs. Carey said.
”The Opera Housewill be good for the

arts, they have become united in a facility
which provides something for them all.
Some people will find it exciting, others
will wish it was a modern structure. I
think it will get state wide support,” Mrs.
Ross said. .

Mrs. Carey feels it is very important
that Lexington has not only a showcase for
local ta lent, but can also “continuallyuplift
the aspirations and the cultural level of the
community by bringing in professional
artists and performers.”

”We think we have a very modern,
usable facility. The two week opening
which begins May 7 will be of both local
and national talent, such as an art exhibit
show,” Carey said.

”Everyone has gone far beyond their
contracts in giving the city a very
beautiful arts theatre,” she added.

“My husband started with the viewpoint
to make it as architecturally pure as the
Victorian Age when it was built.” Mrs.
Ross said.

The ticket prices will be established by
the professional companies and the local
groups that perform there. The prices are
not expected to be much further out of line
than Lexingtonians are accustomed to
paying, according to Mrs. Carey.

 

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By JOE KEMP
Kernel Staff Writer

OCTOBER 1975 —The
moribund World Football League
(WFL) goes the way of the Edsel,
W.T. Grant and Danny Hall. That
is, it just fades away. One of those
who wakes up to i