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Allegations of "house cleaning" and party-line politicking flooded a packed City Council chamber Monday night in protest of a 5-4 vote last week to not re-appoint City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton...
Residents who packed the council chamber gave Connarton a standing ovation as he entered the room and hung a banner that read "Power Corrupts" from the balcony...
They also hissed and booed at the CCA councillors as they entered the council chamber and as the council- lors praised Connarton on his service...
...Shaw at the peak of his powers. Recorded with the Gramercy Five, as Shaw called the combo he occasionally assembled around him, these 20 tracks were laid down only months before he retired. Some were fleetingly available on LP years ago; the rest were never released. They are sublime chamber jazz -- close-knit yet relaxed, subtle, pulsing with the interplay of brilliant sidemen like pianist Hank Jones and guitarist Tal Farlow...
...state had injected Harris with a lethal shot of cocaine so that he would depart in a blinding rush of pleasure? What was truly cruel and unusual -- virtually sadistic -- was the way that the quarreling judicial stage managers jerked Harris in and out of the gas chamber, the man not knowing whether he was to die or be spared. In that long night, he died several deaths...