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...Lyndhurst, Financier Jay Gould's old estate on the Hudson River. Shalit, an amateur bassoonist, accepted with pleasure. As a child, he had taken piano lessons: "You know the kind of thing, the music teacher kisses your Fingers to see if you're a genius." Waving his baton, Shalit said he rehearsed William Boyce's Fifth Symphony and Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony "like fury. I didn't even stop when the record turned...
...Ford has no enemies in the House," Rep. Charles W. Sandman Jr. (R-N.J.) told interviewers last night. Rep. Lawrence Hogan (R-Md.) Sandman's colleague on the House Judiciary Committee, said that Ford was "the ideal choice to take up the baton of leadership right...
...reaffirmed Perón's economic policy, having earlier retained José Gelbard as Economics Minister. The next day she appeared at Buenos Aires' cathedral for a Te Deum commemorating the 158th anniversary of Argentina's independence. As she appeared in the doorway, carrying the presidential baton and wearing a theatrical black cape, the crowd spontaneously cheered...
...Rusher, publisher of National Review; Stanley Fuld, a former New York judge; Molly Ivins, co-editor of the Texas Observer; the Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights leader; Robert McKay, dean of New York University Law School: Ralph Renick, news director of WTVJ (Miami): Sylvia Roberts, a Baton Rouge attorney...
...squad to look out for is Harvard's churning mile relay team. The ace baton club has been clicking off times in the vicinity of 3:16, and on Penn's tartan turf, Sam Butler, Nick Leone, Joel Peters, and Steve Brown will probably crash the 3:15 barrier. If so, Leone should be snapping the tape at the relay's finish line...