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...black and professional white support. He is the son of a trucking magnate and served four years as assistant district attorney of the Middlesex County Court. He will run for re-election this fall stressing three issues: Kendall Square development and blue-collar jobs, the University's "irrelevant" tax exempt status and, most importantly, getting a new City's manager...
...saxophone, guitar and drums as well as piano-until he discovered that "pretty girls always came and sat on the piano bench." He had his own combos in high school and college (Virginia State, where he majored in music), then headed for New York in 1943 (he was medically exempt from war service). Two days after arriving, he landed a job with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Finally he established himself as a soloist in Manhattan's plush East Side nighteries as well...
Beyond the archdemonic Hitlers, Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
...prices for the rest of this year are expected to go on inflating at an annual rate of close to 8%. Phase IV will most likely permit food processors, wholesalers and retailers to pass on to consumers the increases that are paid to farmers for raw materials, which are exempt from controls. But companies probably will not be allowed to pass on some of their labor, transportation, processing or other cost increases, at least not immediately...
Food processors are dropping some items because fruit and vegetable growers are demanding higher prices for their control-exempt goods, while the companies' prices for many products are often frozen at last summer's lower level. General Foods, for example, is turning away orders for some frozen-food lines, especially raspberries and strawberries. Some supermarkets are not stocking plums and tomatoes. Also, potatoes and fish sticks are already being priced off store shelves...