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...York City, 1932. In a golden age of conductors, one stood above all the others in popular estimation: the ferocious, dynamic, irascible Arturo Toscanini. It was inevitable that the paths of the world's most celebrated conductor and its fastest-rising pianist would cross. Intersecting them was Toscanini's youngest child Wanda...
About an hour before the first pitch on a breezy Southern California evening, Arturo (Arte) Moreno, billionaire owner of the Major League Baseball team now known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, walks the concourse of Angels Stadium, picking up cigarette butts and greeting fans. In January Moreno upset many Orange County supporters of the former Anaheim Angels by tacking Los Angeles onto the team name, relegating Anaheim, a city of 343,000, 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, to a mere appendage. He also granted the Angels the dubious distinction of being the only major pro-sports franchise...
...winning a black belt in kung fu by the time he was 17?and delighted his father by participating in Chinese lion dances at local festivals in Los Angeles. As a teenager he'd got a Chinese warrior's tattoo on his left arm. A close grade-school friend, Arturo Fematt Jr., recalls that Victor tried to persuade him to get one, too. "I used to joke with him: 'Oh, man, you know I can't get one of those. I'm Mexican...
...negotiations mediated by San Salvador's Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, the Duarte administration agreed to the kidnapers' demand that 22 political prisoners be freed. The government also granted safe conduct out of El Salvador to 101 wounded guerrillas in need of medical treatment. In return, the F.M.L.N. handed over Duarte Durán and Villeda to intermediaries in the bombed-out town of Tenancingo, north of San Salvador. The rebels also began releasing 33 mayors and municipal officials abducted during the past six months...
Throwing his opponents off balance is typical for Marcos, who, as former Philippines Foreign Minister Arturo Tolentino, a dissident member of the K.B.L., puts it, "has always looked at political contests in a military way." Only three weeks ago, Marcos denied firmly that he was contemplating any sudden election move. Many observers attribute his change of heart to pressure from the U.S. Said Marcos' wife Imelda on the eve of her return to Manila from a three-week trip to New York, Rome, Moscow and Tokyo: "I cannot understand why the U.S. is bullying and trying to isolate the President...