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...hearing on a Cambridge sign ordinance law which would ban, over a period of three years, all protruding and flashing signs, will take place Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the City Council chamber...
Died. Moe Howard, 78, last survivor of the original Three Stooges slapstick comedy team; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. His black bangs cropped as if his barber had used a chamber pot, Moe cheerfully assaulted colleagues Larry, Curly and Shemp through more than 200 1930s farces, whacking them with mallets, tweaking noses, kicking shins, and deftly delivering thousands of the two-fingered eye punches that became his trademark, and endeared him in the 1950s to the first generation of television children...
After the Vice President extolled the merits of the free-enterprise system at last week's convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., Goldwater declared: "If he keeps speaking that way, he'll get the backing of conservatives all over the country. He's talking about the economy, and that's the only issue." Rockefeller took another big step toward conciliating the right a fortnight ago when he apologized to the Senate for any "discourtesy" he may have shown Alabama's Democratic Senator James B. Allen. Last February, while chairing the Senate, Rockefeller...
...speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week, President Ford assailed regulations that may be adding "billions of unnecessary dollars to business and consumer costs every year" and voiced support for pending legislation that would ease the inflationary impact. Among Administration-backed proposals that now seem likely to get attention from Congress...
...soloists. But the group opened its final concert inauspiciously, presenting the first piece they have played this year that was composed by their namesake. Bach, in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, abandoned his usual use of a group of a solo instruments against an orchestral background. Originally intended for chamber performance, the third concerto calls for three violins, three violas, and three cellos, each group acting as a unit. The string orchestra that played last Saturday was heavily weighted against the viola section, both in numbers and in ability. The thread of the music continually got lost; whenever the ball...