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...jamming traffic into town. Willis Corbett, the N.R.A. regional representative, said such a bill was "dangerous." At a public hearing on a New Jersey bill that would ban handguns, held the day after Reagan was shot, 600 gun enthusiasts packed the hearing room. Explains one N.R.A. field representative, Lewis Elliott of Colorado: "Ours is a grassroots effort. Instead of paying a lobbyist, we just use the people...
...String Quartets, generally acknowledged as the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's, the dense, intricate writing challenged the minds, ears and fingers of string players and set a new standard of formal complexity that opened the way for such works as the quartets of Elliott Carter. The Mikrokosmos, 153 short piano studies of increasing difficulty, is an indispensable introduction to 20th century compositional and pianistic techniques...
DIED. James ("Jumbo") Elliott, 66, track and field coach at Villanova since 1935 who led the Wildcats to eight National Collegiate championships and coached 28 Olympians including five gold medalists; of a heart attack; in Juno Beach...
...Ottawa's Parliament Hill waved signs protesting a variety of U.S. policies. With all the requisite pomp, pageantry and protest, Ronald Reagan began his first state visit, a trip to America's No. 1 trading partner. Standing before the Gothic tower of Parliament, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau welcomed him: "Our long relationship has been based on more than neighborhood. It has been based on friendship and on a sharing of values." Mixing French and English diplomatically, Reagan responded: "Merci. C'est un plaisir to be here with you today...
...other group has done so much of my music so well," says Composer Elliott Carter. "Often contemporary music is shown to its worst advantage, like an art exhibit that is displayed without lighting. The works tend to be done indifferently and not very persuasively...