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Died. Lord Feather, 68, salty, aggressive general secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress (1969-73); of a stroke; in London. At 14, Victor Feather filled flour sacks in a grocery co-op to help support his family; at 15, he joined the shop assistants union and at 29 he became a TUC organizer in London. During his 37 years on the staff, Feather led some of the TUC's toughest negotiations. When Britain's Tory government in 1971 passed the Industrial Relations Act restricting union power, Feather made it largely inoperative by refusing to cooperate...
...Smart, only with the added attraction of Belmondo's sexy grimaces and Jacqueline Bisset's--well, Jacqueline Bisset. But Brooks will joy-buzz you all night with this sort of thing (every week, in fact, for five or six years), while de Broca would rather tickle you, like a feather. So we soon discover that the he-man adventures of the hero, Bob St. Clair, all lie in the forlorn mind of a poor, put-upon writer who just scrapes by by churning out pot-boilers. The unhappy writer turns his chintzy publisher into an Albanian villain, and seduces...
Yuba City is right out of American Graffiti, an unattractive town of gas stations, seedy bars and hamburger joints, supported by agriculture and nearby Beale Air Force Base. It has known tragedy before. On Christmas Eve in 1955, the Feather River broke through the levee and drowned 40 people. In 1971 authorities discovered the bodies of 25 itinerant farm workers in shallow graves; eventually, Labor Contractor Juan Corona was convicted of the murders. Twenty-two of the victims now lie in Sutter Cemetery, near where the teenagers were laid to rest last week...
...Adderly, brother of the late jazz saxaphonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, and Leonard Feather, a music critic and jazz historian, began a week-long stay at North House yesterday. They are the first performers to participate in the "Cannonball" Adderley Artists in Residence program...
Adderley and Feather will lecture on "The Development of Jazz in America" Wednesday evening and conduct a tribute to Cannonball Adderley Thursday evening. Both lecturers, which are open to the public without charge, will be held in Hilles Library auditorium...