Word: baton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baton Rouge...
...conductor. At 205 Ibs. and standing less than 5 ft. 10 in., he is built more like a stagehand than an aristocratic maestro, and his round face, capped by a corona of curly hair, is a world away from the suave image of a Leonard Bernstein. Yet as his baton comes slashing down with swift, chopping strokes, he is abruptly transformed into a figure of grace. Cuing the orchestra, effortlessly guiding singers through an opera's trickiest passages, joyfully but inaudibly singing along, he has become Priestley's ideal personified. And why not? James Levine, 39, is doing...
...Heflin, an Alabama Democrat, tucked in a $1 million appropriation for channel-widening at the Franklin Ferry Bridge in his home state. John Melcher, Democratic Senator from Montana, hooked a $243,000 fish hatchery for his, and Louisiana Senator Russell Long pushed through a $5 million cloverleaf project outside Baton Rouge Even Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat, famed for his "Golden Fleece" awards for Government waste, rammed through a $1.5 million poverty-studies program at the University of Wisconsin and $100 million to have a Navy minesweeper built in his home state...
...time? Flutists and cellists, horn players and harpists, men and women climb in and out of tubs and showers, underwear and outerwear, cabs and buses, on their way to the place where, at the finale, they make the most beautiful music this side of Carnegie Hall. Under the baton of Illustrator Marc Simont, every player is treated as an individual and set wittily on the pages like notes on a staff of Mozartean melody...
According to testimony at the hearing, the engineer and the brakeman of the train were both drinking just before, and possibly during, the brief run from Baton Rouge to the site of the wreck. Moreover, Janet Byrd, a clerk employed by the railroad, not only was in the cab of the engine at the time of the derailment but was at the controls because the engineer had dozed off. The hearing also revealed that both Engineer Edward Robertson and Brakeman Russell Reeves had been suspended several times by the railroad-Robertson for a variety of operational errors, including speed violations...