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...members-with only about 1,000 of them at work. Several times Petrillo autocratically ordered a raise for sidemen without consulting either musicians or management. Result: bandleaders lopped off players to hold down costs; the Edgewater Beach Hotel, for one, slashed its 18-man orchestra to a five-man combo...
...after establishing that they carried no proscribed material. Navy planes and ships also detected and tracked half a dozen Soviet submarines. When the subs surfaced to recharge their batteries, they were politely hailed by Russian-speaking U.S. interpreters, then permitted to continue their voyage. One destroyer gathered a Dixieland combo on its deck, blared a jazz greeting across the water to a surfaced sub intruder. The Russians grinned like kids...
Inside, a six-man combo warmed up the audience in the nearly full hall. Seventeen Harvard-style chairs lined the front of the stage, backed by about 80 more seats for the lesser wigs of the party...
...make the average Southern Baptist feel uncomfortably High Church. Loud Bible readings and spontaneous testimonials are part of every service, punctuated by shouts of "Aleluya" and "Gracias a Dios." The hymns swell over a rhythmic clapping, generally accompanied by a guitar, drums, tambourines, a bass fiddle, piano or small combo...
...Wheeling airport, Sonny Day's six-piece combo-the same outfit that had blatted out High Hopes and Happy Days for Kennedy in 1960-struggled manfully on electric accordion, tuba, cornet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone to render Hail to the Chief. Rain was falling steadily when Kennedy arrived at the high school football stadium for the political rally. But 7,500 persons were nonetheless on hand to hear and cheer him. Coatless, Kennedy strode through the rain to the covered platform. "When I come back to West Virginia," he declared. "I feel as if I was coming home...