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...visions of a G.O.P. landslide even embrace muted hopes of a Republican takeover of the Congress, although experienced Republicans on Capitol Hill doubt that it will happen. They see some chance to gain the five seats in the Senate needed to control that chamber. But leaders of the House in both parties agree that the Republicans are likely to gain about 20 seats at most. They need 39 to take over. There was, however, quiet talk of a deal between deeply conservative Southern Democrats to switch parties if the House becomes closely contested-and if their seniority on committees...
...booked solid with other engagements far into 1975. Last week he finished supervising a two-week festival and workshop at London's arts complex on the south bank of the Thames, participating in no fewer than seven programs with astonishing versatility. One night he was conducting a chamber orchestra in Mozart, another playing jazz piano with Guitarist Barney Kessel, another accompanying Soprano Judith Raskin at the piano in Schubert lieder, another joining the Yale String Quartet in Brahms chamber music. After a brief rest, Previn will pick up his regular routine, recording, composing, appearing in TV specials, dashing...
Ever since his German refugee parents took him, at age nine, from Berlin to America, Previn has been feeding on music. When his father had friends in for chamber music, Andre sat under the piano and listened. Later he got up and sat at the keyboard, learning to play symphonies in piano transcriptions. He also studied composing and conducting. At 16, he was scoring at MGM-with starlets as well as music. With his second wife Dory, he wrote pop hits. He collected Oscars and money...
...Cohen's involvement in civic affairs began with his membership on the Junior Chamber of Commerce. He is now director of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, works with a teenage employment service and the Office of Economic Opportunity...