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...full time to real estate speculation in Florida. Githler organized his first International Investors Forum in San Francisco three years ago, attracting 1,400 people at $450 each. The superstar of seminar promoters is James U. Blanchard III, 37. He organized his first seminar in 1974 to help drum up support for his personal campaign to legalize investment in gold...
...tour plugging the program; Reagan himself may hit the road for a few days of speechmaking. His kitchen cabinet-close associates from California who have no official positions in the Administration-met last week in Washington with hundreds of community leaders from around the country to drum up support. Political Consultant Stuart Spencer, an election aide, has been rehired by the White House, to devise a nationwide newspaper and TV advertising campaign on behalf of budget and tax cuts. The object of all this effort will be to build pressure in favor of the proposals among the constituents of Senators...
DIED. William ("Cozy") Cole, 71, versatile and spellbinding jazz percussionist whose 1958 recording of Topsy became the only drum solo ever to sell a million copies; of cancer; in Columbus. Born in East Orange, N.J., Cole made his first records with the legendary Jelly Roll Morton in 1930 and later played with such jazz greats as Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong...
...rolls of the snare-drum take over in the Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Mahler describes in a correspondence the hero of this last movement: "Oh him fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled." Once the seven sceptres at Armageddon come out of the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony, the scythes they raise deliver a cruel final stroke...
...mollify "America, the mother of corruption." A short time later Khomeini was dropping hints that the hostages would indeed be tried (and "executed by firing squad," Deputy Chief Islamic Prosecutor Hassan Ghaffarpour added). Khomeini went on to say that the U.S. President "knows that he is beating an empty drum. Carter does not have the guts to engage in a military operation...