THE BATTALION
Pag-e 2
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, November 28, 1972
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CADET SLOUCH
by jim Earie (Spreading Rocky Mountain High
By TERRY YORK
Some years ago the Smothers
Brothers put on a relaxed televi
sion program on the night stand
ard musicians and backup people
were on strike.
Last week after a live per
formance in somewhat the same
vein at G. Rollie, John Denver
noted he had the backing of that
show’s producers to take the con
cept and expand upon it, first in
to a full scale special, then into
a series. He has done a mid
night special with only one
week’s preparation, which gen
erally pleased both himself and
top brass with major TV net
works.
He has also a filmed show
coming out Jan. 10 in which he
plays the lead as well as writes
the music for a trip through the
Canadian Rockies in a search for
big horned sheep.
Control is his big thing. He’s
seen too many good performers
lose shirt and soul to the tube.
“Roger Miller, when he was sing
ing ‘King of the Road’ for two
years in a row was the biggest
thing in the recording business
— TV, one season, and he hasn’t
done anything since,” said Den
ver.
Denver’s formula is to take
the small band he brought to
A&M and add some of his per
forming friends, “who’ve never
been on television but who I
think are great for television.”
In the special, with “probably a
couple of hundred thousand dol
lars to spend . . . we’ll get to
try some things.” The plan is to
take the viewer in the direction
of the campfire feeling, sharing
a dream and a reality — all at
the same time.
“So we’re going to do a spe
cial. And then I have an offer
to do a show for eight weeks in
London for the BBC. I went over
and did an hour special, the same
kind of thing and they were so
knocked out by what I did — it
was a one man show, just me
and my guitar — they offered us
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this three-month series on BBC.”
With business intervening in
the United States and still great
ly concerned to have the show
go exactly as he wanted it to,
Denver told the BBC, “ ‘no’ for
this reason. He then said,
‘We’ll do six or eight weeks if
you’ll give us total control,’ and
we just laid it on the line. And
they gave it to us. We’ve got
six weeks in the spring that we
have complete control over. The
only thing they’re providing is
the director and the cameraman.
With the experimentation he
can do on the special and in Eng
land “to find out what he can
do, can’t do, what works and
doesn’t work,” he expects to be
ready for “five to ten years
with a regular show on TV. He
expects to generate the excite
ment necessary to carry this off
without the standard media de
vices. “No dancers, no canned
anything.”
He has worked his thing out
on stage, going from the song
writer of “Leaving on a Jet
Plane” to the performer of
“Country Roads,” where the audi
ence finds him. From then on
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PONTIAC, Mich. (A>) — Shots
fired during a scuffle among
black and white pupils wounded
five sophomore pupils Monday at
Pontiac Central High School, au
thorities reported.
One of the pupils, Timothy
Williams, was hospitalized in
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BEAUMONT, Tex. — Beau
mont Port Commissioner Bill
Kimbrough said Monday that a
federal maritime administration
study recommending the mouth
of the Mississippi River as site
for a Gulf superport would not
harm Texas’ chances of getting
a similar deep-water port fa
cility.
Kimbrough said the Lake
Charles, La., to Freeport, Tex.,
area had the greatest concentra
tion of petrochemical plants on
the Gulf Coast and that a, super-
port near the tip of •the Missis
sippi River delta would not leave
Texas out of the picture.
Kimbrough said Louisiana’s ef
forts to get a superport would
be hampered because of the ecol
ogy issue.
Capt. Creighton Cook, was re
ported under way on the tiny
island, about 1,100 miles north
west of Honolulu.
Cook, attached to the U. S.
Pacific Fleet Commander, Adm.
Bernard Clarey, also participated
in probing a racial incident last
month aboard the aircraft car
rier Kitty Hawk.
HONOLULU — An apparent
racial incident involving 130 sail
ors at Naval Station Midway
caught the Navy by surprise, a
spokesman for the U.S. Pacific
Fleet said Monday.
Midway was considered to have
“a good minority affairs pro
gram,” the spokesman said.
Five sailors — four whites and
one black — suffered minor in
juries in the fighting Saturday
night but have been returned to
duty, the spokesman said.
An investigation, headed by
WASHINGTON — The Envir
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nounced Monday a research con
tract to Chrysler Corp. for de
velopment of the gas turbine en
gine as a possible alternative to
present internal combustion auto
mobile engines.
Information resulting from the
project will be available to the
entire auto industry, an EPA
spokesman said.
He said the aim of the con
tract was to develop and test
gas turbines to see if they can
compete with internal combus
tion engines in performance, fuel
economy, reliability and cost,
while meeting federal antipollu
tion standards for 1976 cars.
1976 would be the elimination of
poverty.
Warren was honored by the
Federation of Jewish Agencies
of Greater Philadelphia with its
1972 Humanitarian Award “for
his deep compassion and commit
ment” to all peoples during his
16 years on America’s highest tri
bunal.
He was the nation’s fourth
chief justice.
“Wouldn’t it be nice, in our bi
centennial year, if we could say
we were a more healthy nation
on the way to eliminating pover
ty?” Warren said.
serious condition with a stomach
wound.
The other boys and two girls
were expected to be released
from the hospital soon. One girl
is black, the other four pupils
are white, school officials said.
Lt. James Lafnear, school po
lice counselor, said the racial
scuffling occurred as classes
changed at Pontiac Central. He
said there was no immediate in
dication what triggered the inci
dent.
Authorities said a black youth,
believed to be a pupil, suddenly
pulled a small pistol and began
shooting. Lafnear said there
have been no arrests although
authorities are questioning sev
eral students fitting the descrip
tion of the assailant.
Principal Don McMillen said
the shooting scene is an open
area between the school’s main
building and its industrial arts
building. He said, “There might
have been a 100 to 150 passing
through there before the actual
shooting.” Police said they be
lieve 30 to 50 youths were on
hand when the shooting started.
“it’s a whole different thing that
happens.” He knows what he
wants to happen and see that it
does.
I personally didn’t find that
he had grown a lot from last
year’s performance here; he even
used some of the same pattern as
he did before. But he admitted
his need for a writer to do his
link-ins for the tube and that he
felt his strong points to be in the
songs themselves. His excite
ment and the depth of ideas for
the future are very real and his
sources of support are well doc
umented.
John Denver is passing his pipe
to an ever increasing circle of
family and friends, going from
campfire to campfire in the flesh
and in the mind, turning to new
media to take him where he oth
erwise couldn’t go, and every
where spreading his own version
of the Rocky Mountain high.
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our title. The tragedy of them is derived from the circumstances
in which they are found. A certain man who had misused his
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he appealed for relief, and was answered with these words. The
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