Word: cannoneer
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...DIFFERENT VEIN, Bromberg creates a hybrid of dixie-land and rock around Gus Cannon's "Stealin'," producing a sound interesting enough to justify its appearence as yet another version of that frequently recorded rag. On this cut, as throughout the album, Bromberg holds himself back, never displaying the sheer virtuousity he has shown himself to be capable of. At the start of the song, for example, he offers only a few bars of tasty rag picking before drowning the guitar out in a melange of horns, mandolin, bass and drums. Although the absence of flash is somewhat disappointing, Bromberg...
...committee structure; it also served notice that tyrannical committee chairmen, once chosen on the basis of seniority alone, could be replaced. The House similarly undermined entrenched committee bosses and shifted power to the Speaker. Democrat Tip O'Neill used that leverage to become the strongest Speaker since "Uncle" Joe Cannon, some 65 years ago. Both House and Senate also adopted new ethics rules limiting the outside income that members were allowed to earn...
...popular TV show of the '50s, The Millionaire, a vigilant philanthropist would single out deserving citizens and then stun them with a big check. Philanthropist Thomas Cannon, 53, is no multimillionaire, however. He is a black postal worker in Richmond earning $16,000 a year, who in the past five years has somehow managed to give away more than $33,000 of his own money. Most of it has gone, in $1,000 checks, to strangers whose misfortunes or good deeds he has read about. Some of his beneficiaries: a Colombian orphan who needed heart surgery; a couple...
...flashing lights and the cacophony are as much a part of the score as the 16 cannon blasts in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Yet hard-core pinballers find the game exquisitely relaxing. West Virginia's Secretary of State James Manchin, 49, plays early in the morning to sharpen his mind, at lunchtime to unwind and in the evening to forget his problems. "At the machine," he says, "all the cares and woes of the world are remote...
...miles away, but dust-blown little Jijiga is not yet out of enemy range, as Correspondent Wood discovered on his visit there. "Without warning," he reports, "three Ethiopian jets suddenly screamed over the town, pumping rockets and bombs into ramshackle buildings and strafing the dusty streets with 40 mm. cannon fire. In four passes, the jets concentrated on Jijiga's miserably under-equipped hospital, a target they had hit four days earlier. This time they finished the job, killing the hospital's three young nurses and four other civilians, and seriously wounding the town's only doctor...