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Volume LXlX. Number 67
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IWY conference draws support,
criticism at Houston showdown

Ry MARIE MITCHELL
Associate Editor
and
.Il'I)ITH EGERTON
Copy Editor

IIOL'STON. 'I‘cx.— Official run.
ners, on the last leg off a more than
2,000-mile relay, presented a
flaming torch to Billie Jean King
symbolizing “Women on the Move,"
as a rain-drenched crowd of more
than 1,500 cheered and chanted for
ratification of the Equal Rights
Ammendment (ERA).

As the torch exchanged hands and
marked this opening of the In-
ternational Women's Year (IWY)
conference last Friday, Dr. Susan B.
Anthony, namesake and grandniece
of the famed suffragette, said to the
onlookers that now one race has
been finished—“the race begun by
our founding Mothers at Seneca
Falls in 1848 1’ a convention that
resulted in women winning the right
to vote)”.

More than 100 years later,
congresswomen, three first ladies
elected delegates and numerous
observers at the conference man-
dated by Congress applied this
power to issues of specific concern to
women.

The agenda being voted on is
compiled into a National Plan of
Action. which is a synthesis of
recommendations adopted by most

states and territories in their
respective conventions.

All approved items will be sub—
mitted to Congress. Four months
later, President Carter will present
Congress with recomendations
based on IWY convention propsals.

Although in a preceding press
conference Liz Carpenter, IWY
commissioner and former press
secretary to Lady Bird Johnson,
promised to make the procedure as
easy as possible in order “to save
scars, irritation and high blood
pressure," there were problems that
prevented the conference from
following its tentative schedule.

Party delegates, lengthy
discussions, enthusiastic outbursts
and confusion regarding proper
parliamentary procedure caused a
delay in the number of items
covered during the first day of the
plenary sessions. Nevertheless, arts
and humanities, battered women,
business and child care were passed
unchanged.

Despite diverse viewpoints on
some issues, the item concerning
finanical credit for some women
passed unanimously.

Chair for this particular session,
Ruth Clusen. was amazed and
remarked that it was good sign “for
all the people who thought we
couldn't agree on anything."

A substitute resolution on disabled
women emphasized access to

Beer barrel stays

as UK bounces
Tennessee 21 -1 7

By JAMIE VAUGHT
Assistant Sports Editor

For the first time since 1959.
Kentucky gets to keep the old bat-
tered beer barrel for second year in
a row.

UK earned the right to retain the
old keg. which is the symbol of the
Kentucky-Tennessee rivalry, by
defeating the orange-clad Volun-
teers 21-17 in the Wildcats' season
finale Saturday before 57,914 fans at
Commomwealth Stadium.

The victory climaxed UK‘s best
season since 1950 as it posted a 10—1
overall record and an unbeaten
conference mark of 6-0, the first
time Kentucky has ever won all its
SEC games. It was the Wildcats‘
ninth straight victory and 14th in
their last 15 games.

But the thrilling victory didn’t
come easy for the injury-plagued
Cats.

UK trailed 17.14 in the fourth
quarter after Tennessee senior
placekicker Jim Gaylor broke a
school record for the longest field
goal by booting a 57-yarder with
10:53 remaining. The old mark was
54 yards, set by Karl Kremser in
1968.

That‘s when Kentucky went to
work.

Reserve quarterback Mike
Deaton, who didn’t play more than a
minute in the game, ignited a
scoring drive when he threw a 36-
yard pass to sophomore wide
receiver Felix Wilson from the UK
20-yard line.

Twelve plays and five minuntes
later, starting quarterback Derrick
Ramsey. a third-team Football
News All-American. ran one yard
through the middle for the winning
touchdown. Joe Bryant's successful
extra-point kick set the game's final
margin.

The long drive covered 80 yards in
13 plays with senior fullback Joe
Dipre gaining 22 yards in four
carries.

Deaton‘s toss to Wilson was the
game's turning point, according to
happy UK coach Fran Curci.

“There were several big plays on
both sides," Curci said. “That’s
what makes a game like this so
interesting. But perhaps one of the
biggest of all time was Deaton’s
pass. That was a big, big play.

“Wilson put a great move on the
man right in front of us and Deaton
threw the ball right on the money. It
looked to me like Deaton was under
pressure, but it was perfectly
thrown."

Deaton said, "l'm glad that my
pass helped to win the game. I
thought they might call the play. I
mver did expect that to happen and
I didn‘t expect to go into the game at
all.“

But the game wasn‘t over.
Ramsey fumbled on the UK 45 with
about two minutes left, giving
Tennessee hope for an upset.

But the Vols‘ bid for their fourth
victory came to an abrupt end. 'As

sophomore quarterback Jimmy

Streater rolled to his left, he was hit
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training, education and em-
ployment. The reolution included the
right of disabled women to have and
keep their children.

Elective and appointive office and
the employment items were also
passed unchanged. However, the
education resloution was amended
to include an urging for women's
studies and state school systems an(
an end to race stereotyping in
schools.

Author Betty Friedan, a longtime
outspoken feminist leader, had
publicly made no comments
regarding the activities of the
conference until the ERA came up
for passage. She then pleaded with
delegates to vote in favor of the ERA
and for the 20,000 present to return to
their respective states and initiate
immediate plans for ratification.

Speaking emotionally, ERA ad-
vocate Friedan said, “There is only
one thing that Houston is worth—the
Equal Rights Ammendment."

Enthusiasm prevaded throughout
the convention floor during the
discussion of the ERA. Excitment
mounted and New York delegates
with arms linked paraded around
the floor in eager anticipation of the
upcoming votes.

Deliberate tactics by Pro—Family
delegates to delay passage were
unsuccessful. Procedural questions
from those delegates evolved into

In one of many touching moments following
over Tennessee
Saturday in Commonwealth Stadium. senior

Kentucky‘s 2I-l7 victory

Pro—Family rhetoric, for which they
were then called out of order by the
chair. Despite these rule infractions,
the ERA was formally endorsed
without time limitations.

Controversy surrounding the
amendment led to the selection of
Ilouston as the conference site.
Many perspective cities are located
in the 15 states that have not ratified
the ERA.

The centrally located city of
Chicago could have realized about
$15 milion in revenue had it been
chosen. The big loser, Las Vegas,
could have netted an estimated $300
million. Houston stands to gain only
$5 million.

Houston, as an employer of the
only women‘s advocate in the nation
and Texas, as one of the earliest
states to ratify the ERA, were
factors contributing to the final
decision to hold the conference here.

Ironically, the president‘s home
state, Georgia, has not passed the
ERA, although Carter has publicly
stated his support.

The IWY proposal, now in an
embryonic state, will come to full-
term eight months from now. The
pro~plan delegates and com—
missioners hope Carter's verbal
committments will give birth to
legislation that will ensure female
American citizens full equality and
protection under law.

linebacker Dave l-‘adrowski [Stil shares final
words with senior defensive tackle Jerry
lilanton lent. I"at|rowski and Iilanton. like

Optimistic Abzug

elicits respect

at IWY conference

By AIARII‘Z AII'I'CIIHJ.
\ssociate Editor
and
.ll‘lll'l‘ll EGI‘IR'I‘ON
Copy Editor

[The following are excerpts
gathered from speeches. personal
interviews and observations during
the IWY convention in Houston Noi.
iii-20.1

Houston, 'l'e\.—~ltella with the
omnipresent hat and unshakable
cool

As presiding officer. she elicits
respect and maintains order by

 

news analysis

virtue of a solid background in legal
and congressional experience.

Repeatedly she reminds
delegates, observers and the media
of the goals and purpose of the
national convention.

“One of the great things about
America is that dissent takes place,‘
Abzug said in an interview.
“Through dissent you come through
ideas and actions. There are dif-
ferences of opinions on many issues
at the conference. .that‘s what we‘re
all about."

Although the pace of the first
session. which included passage of
the ERA resoltion. lagged
somewhat, Abzug was persistently
optimistic.

“This conference is now going to
movc on. to deal with all other issues
which affect every type of woman
and every kind of woman in this
country." slit‘ said.

Regarding delay.» in the plenary
session. Abzug did not place blame
on any one group. but maintained

that instances occur at any large
conference where people have
different points of view

She said these things happen when
persons express themselves in
different ways, either through
l)t)Slll\'t‘ statciiicntsor by preventing

others from making statements.
“This is normally part of the
pi‘occss,"sl1c added,

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.‘istrodonic arena was packed
thcrc \ti'i‘t' banners..."
“Kiting babies is murder..."
“\t'oini-n‘s lib is a devil's fib . "
"Christ, inc and Anita it
"Abort ERA. "

Seventeen thousand men, women
and children ralied around the flag
and motherhood.

A red, white and blue stage was
color coordinated with a frontvrow of
patriotically clad teenage girls,
bibles in hand. Faces were solemn.
(iod. family and country were at
issue here corruption of children
and blasphemous feminist rhetoric
would not be tolerated.

Housework, diapers and dishes
have been sacrificed to protect the
sanctity of the home from the
threatening invasion of radical
feminists and bull—dykes who had
invaded the boundaries of their state
for a “taxsupportcd farce they call
l\\'\‘.“

The ladies in pink came forth.
t-scorted by husbands, fathers and
brothers in pastel leisure suits. All
chiildrcn under the. age of six were
dotted with profaniiy buttons

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nation

ANITA RRTANT SAYS TIIE NATIONAL Women's Con-
ference at Houston is “pro-lesbian, pro-abortion and pro
many other things that aren‘t reprsentative of the thinking of
most American women." “I believe in equal rights for
women, but not in the Equal Rights Amendment, and cer~
tainly not in the Women‘s Conference, which is a waste of $5
million of the American taxpayer‘s money," she said
Saturday.

TIIE VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL
(‘ommission says it doesn‘t care whether he‘s the president's
brother. “Billy's Beer" can‘t be sold in Virginia. The cans
carry a picture of the president‘s beer-drinking brother from
Plains, Ga. And that's the problem. The commission has a
regulation banning the sale of alcoholic beverages that carry
any endorsement of any famous person on the label.

NEARLY 5.000 CONVICTED CRIMINALS have been

jailed for an average of 14 years as a result of federally
funded programs to crack down on career criminals, the Law
Enforcement Assistance Administration said yesterday. The
agency reported the results of the special programs to attack
repeat offenders in 22 cities. LEAA is spending $11 million to
sponsor those projects.

world

AT LEAST trio PERSONS WERE KILLED or listed as
missing after a Portuguese jettiner overshot the runway,
crashed and exploded while landing in Funchal, Madeira, 8
Atlantic holiday island, officials said yesterday. The Boeing
727 of Portugal‘s national airline TAP skidded off the end of
the Santa Cruz Airport runway and burst into flames during
blustery weather Saturday night. It carried 156 passengers
and eight crew members, TAP spokesmen said.

PREMIER CONSTANTINE (‘ARAMANLIS' conservative
New Democracy Party led in early return: yesterday and

was expected to remain in power with an overall majority in
general elections for the :i00-member unicameral
parliament. (‘amramanlis called the elections one year
early, saying a new government was needed to make
decisions on crucial issues facing Greece next year.

A CYCLONE TIIAT IIAS IIATTEREI) eastern India for
two day's, and a resultant tidal wave, have killed at least 879
persons, officials said yesterday. More than 2,000 were
reported injured. The storm cut across the Bay of Bengal and
hit Andhra I‘radesh state Saturday with heavy rains and
winds of up to 95 mph, causing widde devastation and
isolating many districts, officials said.

"YOI' WANT TO LIVE WITH ['8 in this part of the world.
and I welcome you among us (Egypt and the Arabst in all
safety and security,“ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
somberly told the Israeli parliament. a nation the Arabs have
fought and vilified since it was founded 29 years ago His
appearance in Israel was unthinkable less than two weeks
ago. before Sadat made his dramatic offer to fly here In

Washington, President Carter prayed for the success of the
Sadat liegin meeting and said the Egyptians mission to
Israel "might very well break down the barrier to peace." In
lteriiit. anger over Sadat's visit intensified among many
Arabs as Palestinian guerrillas vowed to assassinate the
Egyptian president and the state-run Syrian radio urged
Egyptians to overthrow him.

weather

TODAY \HH. RE MOSTLY (“Ltil‘m' with showers and a
few thundershowers. high in the low 50s It Will be partly
cloudy tonight with a chance of a few showers and colder.
The low tonight will be near 32, Tomorrow will bring us
continuing cloudy skies and cold. The high tomorrow will be
near 40

Compiled from Associated handily-fem and the National
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New York’s

’The Boss’ makes crooks quake

“2“ YORK There is no glamor
on the streets. Last night. as the rest
of the nation sat in living rooms and
thrilled to The Godfather on
television. the members of
organized crime wriggled under the
cold hand of a new ruler. a 73-year
old man who is mentioned only in
whispers as "in Occhio" or “One
Eye " He suffered the loss of a left
eye from flying glass after throwing
a bomb IIIIO an East. Side bakery in
1934.

“In Occhio" came out of
retirement to take over the criminal
empire from t‘armine tLiIot
Galante. who had the underworld in
disarray.

Galante. suffering from acute ego,
was in the newspapers and
television so much that he became a
“must” target for federal
authorities. A couple of weeks ago.
(ialante was thrown back in jail, for
parole violation. Suddenly, One Eye.
a much-feared man. reappeared on
the streets of East Harlem and lower
Manhattan and it became known
that he was the boss of all bosses.

He spends nearly all of his time
behind the counter of a dim, narrow
candy store on Pleasant Avenue in
East Harlem. A prospective
customer walking into the candy
store finds copies of News World, the
[icy Moon paper. out on the counter.
Perhaps a dozen packs of cigarettes
are in dusty wooden racks behind
the counter. ()ver them are four
boxes of anisette-flavored cigars. As
there is no candy. One Eye does not
appear really to be in the candy
business.

Asked for a soft drink, One Eye
went to the fountain and filled a
paper cup with soda water. He
presented this to the customer.

“There is no Coke in this drink,"
tine Eye was told.

He shrugged. “Tomorrow when
you come back there will be Coke in
the drink." he said.

The hard glare in his one eye, the
right eye. asked you to leave.

It is rumored that in the rear of the
store there is a large over into which

'Un Occhio’

l'n Ochhio has people thrown.

Last week, as the deposed Galante
watched The Godfather on television
in a dayer of the Metropolitan
t‘orrectional Center, Un Occhio
watched it in a marble palace, a
triplex that has been built inside a
tenement with a crumbling front and
a graffiti-marked green metal door
on a block off Pleasant Avenue in
East Ilarlem. He lives in the triplex

Eye still remembers the day his
close friend, (‘harlcy tl.uckyi
Luciano, received his first press
notice. a three paragraph story
about an old assault, which ran in
the old New York American.
Luciano danced on the street corner.
One Eye hid in the cellar. “Anyone
who ever gets to know me will want
me to die," he reasoned,

One Eye is a wrinkled man who

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with his wife, Neenel, who is seen
only at funerals of men who have
had particularly violent deaths. The
walls and floor of the triplex are of
Norweigen rose marble but mainly
onyx. Un Occhio and his wife pad
about in stockinged feet because the
sound of a heel striking the marble is
too loud, and it also gives the listener
the impression that someone is
going to kill him.

Un Occhio, who for years was the
hidden boss of organized crime,
using men such as Vito Genovese as
publicityscatching fronts, retired
about seven years ago. When the
latest new boss, Galante, made such
a mess of things, including a
demand that the word Mafia be used
again. Un Occhio was asked by the
International Commission to resume
command of all crime in New York,
and thus the nation. The meeting, in
Hollywood, Fla, began a day late
because of weather conditions at the
catania Airport. Also, Meyer Lansky
had acute indigestion.

In 1931, One Eye bribed Herbert
Hoover. but he has been able to
escape publicity over his lifetime to
the extent that there are no printed
stories about him that anybody can
locate. This week, One Eye told all
his new subjects, “When I say hello
to you, then you say hello to me. If
you recognize me before this, then I
will feed your tongue and both your
eyes to my dog.”

Early in his life, growing up on
cast 10th Street in Manhattan, One

stands only 5 feet 0 and weighs, at
most, 130 pounds. He was born on
Nov. 26, 1905, in the same town as
I.uciano~~licrcarra Eriddi in Sicily.
He arrived in New York in 1911. He
has bitten men to death, but he has
no criminal record in this country.
He did compile an extensive record
in Sicily.

He is partial to poison. “You give
them food and they die." he says
fondly. Organized crime members
in New York, who always expect a
change in command to produce a
certain number of funerals, now are
terrified that One Eye might invite
them to a banquet.

()n the streets, it is known that One
Eye has such a low opinion of the
condition of his organization that a
thorough housecleaning is man
datory. His opinion comes as a result
of the tremendous number of new
members brought in under Galante.

Once, they were known as “made"
people. Today. they are referred to
as “nice fellas“ or guys who have
been “straightened out." At one
time, a man had to commit a
legitimate number of murders
before being allowed in. But Galante
became so careless and greedy that
he conferred memberships on
people who promised him extra cuts
of anything they made as full-
fledged gangsters. And in some
cases, Galante took bribes to allow
the man in.

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of an inept salesman paid $50,000 to
get her son organized crime.

She got the idea from legitimate
people, who pay the same amount to
be named a judge Galante took the
money and officially declared the
salesman a fearsome killer.

The mother was proud. She also
went into her clothes closet and
spruccd up what was there, in case
the son found the future a little
rough, Better a black dress than a
miserable failure as a son, she told

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herself

The salesman, now that he was a
gangster, went out and got himself
his first gun. He got up in the mor-
ning and went out and did what
gangsters do all day, which is
nothing.

At night he went on parade with
his new girl, who is nearly 17. When
the salesman came home at 4 am,
he was still from whiskey. He did not
want to put the loaded gun under his
mattress because he was afraid it
would go off.

He went into the bathroom and
decided to empty it in style. He filled
the bathtub and aimed the gun at the
water, as he had seen ballistics
people do on television. He pulled the
trigger. The bullet richocheted off
the hard enamel and hit his
shoulder. His mother had to come
and take him to a doctor, who
charged her almost as much for the
bullet as Galante did for the
membership.

The other day, tc salesman, his
arm in a sling. was walking down
Elizabeth Street in Manhattan when
One Eye arrived for an inspection
tour. One Eye said to an associate.
“(Io over and ask him if he likes a
nice sea bass dinner next week.“

Then all of Elizabeth Street
shivered as the new Iioss of all
Bosses walked along, tccth grinding
like a timber woif.

Icl By JIMMY HRESIJN.
Distributed b The (‘hicago Tribune-
New York News Syndicate, Inc.

By LEONARD ()RIANI)
New York Times
News Service

\YEST HARTFORD, Conn.—
Three Federal prisoners, John N.
Mitchell, H.R. Haldcman and John
I). Erlichman, are now eligible for
parole by virtue of the recent sen-
tencereduction decision of Federal
District Judge John J. Sirica.

(.‘entral to Sirica‘s decision and to
the forthcoming parole decisions for
these three Watergate defendents as

commentary

well, is the newly perceived at-
titudes of repentance displayed by
the defendants.

During the time I served on the
(‘onnecticut parole board, I never
voted to release a prisoner who
remained unrepentant.

To be sure, very few prisoners
appeared before me without saying
that they were sorry for the crime
they had committed. Since prisoners
desire release above all else, most
prisoners have learned the system
well enough to appear rcpcntant.

There are, of course, occasional
mavericks. The late George Jackson
was one: “No one walks into the
board room with his head up... No
black will ever leave this place...
until they see that thing in his eyes.
And you can't fake it, resignation ~
defeat it must be stamped clearly
across the face."

Jackson, the black revolutionary
inmate at San Quentin, predictably
paid for his refusal to acquiesece in
the obligatory contrition ceremony:
The (‘alifornia parole board
repeatedly denied him parole.

Jackson‘s defiance stands in
marked contrast to the new-found
spirit of repentcncc that has gripped
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Cats overcame
all the obstacles

Congratulations of the highest level are in order for the 1
UK football team. What looked like an average team in “
August fought its way through injuries, a demanding 1,
schedule and a probation period to become the seventh- j
ranked team in the country in November. The Cats won all
their SEC games, the first time ever, finishing 10-1. 1

Fran Curci and his staff performed superbly this year, I,
maintaining a potent offense and stingy defense with j
frequent replacements. In particular. Curci’s faith in ‘
Derrick Ramsey paid off as the senior quarterback I
became one of UK‘s most effective signal-callers ever. I

Much of the credit should go to the athletic department j
and University administration. The “front office" wasn’t I
satisfied with mediocre football and gave the team total I
support and enough time to build. j

The fanatical UK fans are also a big part of football's t
turnaround here. Their support, whether vocal, financial. I
or measured in liquid intake, is becoming one of the most I
spectacular backings in the sport. If you don‘t think fan ’
support’s important, ask the Peach Bowl officials. They’re l
probably still counting last year‘s profits. '

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It‘s not easy to take the field each week knowing that I
there will be no bowl game reward, no national television
coverage, no recognition in some polls and league stan-
dings with an asterisk by your name, if they list it at all.

Maybe probation is a necessary price to pay to get to the
top now. Athletic programs at Long Beach State, Las
Vegas, North Carolina State and other schools only made
it big after playing fast and loose with NCAA regulations.

Let’s hope the loss of bowl and TV revenue, conference
standing and scholarship losses are enough of a lesson
here. UK's program has come a long way from the days
when football was only something used to kill time before
basketball, when football was a perennial SEC also-ran. ',
That success shouldn’t be jeopardized by another i
probation. 5

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say it helps the economy. Some say it gives the school I
prestige that is reflected elsewhere. Others only care I
about better parties and trips. If all that is untrue, or isn’t I

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aimed for something big this year, faced tremendous
adversity and finally achieved success.

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“atone for my actions" and Ehrlich- that prisoners seeking release feign
man's admission that he had lied contrition.

represent a startling departure from It

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this triumvirates stony refusal to

Watergate defendants, convicted of

bend at time of sentencing.

These declarations of culpability
and radiant moral insights were
conspicuously absent when the three
were sentenced by the very judge.
who in light of these confessions, has
agreed to hasten their release from
prison.

These ethical insights, it should be
noted, were visited upon the
defendants only after their appeals
had failed and after they had ac-
tually experienced loss of freedom
and the rigors of confinement.

It can be predicted with con-
fidence that the current fervor of
repentance of these particular
defendants will remain un-
diminished at least through their
respective parole hearings.

It is clear that Sirica demanded
public confessions as a condition for
sentence reduction. But can it be
honestly said that these demands of
confession as a condition for
freedom make legal or moral sense?

The unavoidable problem lies in
the fact that there is no reliable way
to distinquish between the truly
rcpcntant prisoner and his feigning
counterpart. Indeed, the universal

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perjury and obstruction of justice, to
be rewarded by early release for yet
another possible (Icccptionrr in this
instance. remorse,

The demand for contriton as a
condition for release is dishonest
and self-defeating: Dishonest
because it places a premium on
sanctimonious false confessions;
self-defeating, because it enhances
the inmate perception of the
dishonesty of the criminal justice
system.

I'Itimatcly. we should recognize
the limitations of the criminal-
justice process in general and of
imprisonment in particular to
achieve either psychological or
moral rehabilitation.

If that is so, we should move
toward a system of sentencing,
incarceration and release that
dispenses honest and even-handed
sanctions without unrealistic ex-
pectations or demands for
cpiphanics of repentence or
miracles of rehabilitation.

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Generations meet in Kristofferson-Coolidge show

It) Tll().\l.-\S( LARK
Arts Editor

It was a strange Saturday
evening in Lexington, but it
was even stranger for the
crowd who gathered in
Memorial Coliseum for the
Kris Kristofferson—Itita
(‘oolidge concert.

Boys straight off the junior
high school chin-up bar
sauntered through the aisles
playing stud to giggling girls
who daringly puffed on their
first Virginia Slims.

Middle-aged women
bravely undid the second
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stared in utter amazement at

the passing parade of
students young enough to be
their children.

Three groups. who share
nothing in common when they
pass on the streets, suddenly
were united as they filled the
small Memorial Coliseum
with one purpose in mind: to
get as close. snap as many
pictures. and scream as loud
as they possible could for
Kristofferson and Coolidge.

Kristofferson's rhythm
guitarist. Billy Swan. opened
the evening with a 15-minute
set. The artist has had one hit,
“I Can Help." which ended
the mercifully short section of
the show.

“I Can Help" is several
years old and sounded every
day of it on Saturday. Swan‘s
music had little life and a
rendition of “Shake. Rattle
and Roll“ had no shake. no
rattle and the only roll was on
a drum.

Swan took his bow and
introduced his “old friend"
Kristofferson, igniting a
cannon roar of screams and
cheers. Student Center Board
Concert Committee members
somehow heat back the mad
rush to stage by teeny-
hoppers and middle-aged
mamas, but the noise almost
over-rode the low, gruffness
of Kristofferson‘s voice in
“Loving Her Was Easier."

Kristofferson, being a
Rhodes scholar and no
dummy. worked his way into
the UK student‘s heart by
dedicating his famed tune
about hang-overs, “Sunday
Morning Comin‘ Down." to
the University of Tennessee
football team. “I‘m sure
they‘re feeling the same thing
that I did when I wrote this.”
was his excuse.

The gravel—voiced writer
played for almost an hour.
doing a number of new songs.
including a strange piece
inspired by the mysterious
statues of Easter Island in the
Pacific.

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By intermission. a rift had
developed in the crowd.
People were crying out for
Coolidge while others stood
and shouted IlySlL‘I'IL‘iIII}
every time Kristoifurson
opened his mouth.

Coolidge took over ttit
stage at the opening of in:
second half and sang nearly
every half-way popular song
off her i\ii_\'tiiiie....\ii_\where
album, adding several other
country numbers to round out
her portion of the show

It was in her portion or the
show that the other “special
guest" joined the activities.
Barbara Carroll played piano
behind ('oolidgc for several
numbers. an addition that
improved the quality of
(Toolidge's set purely because
it added a little variety

(‘arroll‘s piano solos were
more classical-jam. which
clashed with t‘oolidge's
country overtones. But they
added a variety to the set
which was becoming dry and
monotonous.

The set ended. in contrast
to what preceded it, with the
beautiful “We're All Alone."
The number was everything a
concert should be. Beautiful
lighting. peaceful vocal, a
crisp guitar break and a (iuie
crowd.

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