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...Senate seat now held by Democrat Alan Cranston, 71. The candidates are wildly diverse, ranging from Zschau, a millionaire Silicon Valley Congressman, to Eldridge Cleaver, the former Black Panther leader; from right-wing TV Commentator Bruce Herschensohn to Supply-Side Economist Arthur Laffer to indicted-then-unindicted Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler...
...runner, with 14%, is Ed Davis, 69, a state senator and former Los Angeles police chief who once proposed that convicted hijackers be hanged in public view at airports. White- maned and barrel-chested, Davis is a man of considerable physical presence and selfighteousness. It was he who accused Fiedler of offering to pay off much of his campaign debt if he would drop out of the race. Fiedler was indicted on the charge, but a judge dismissed the indictment for lack of evidence. Still, an odor of vague notoriety has clung to Fiedler's campaign --and Davis...
...they get up in the morning, they think about it all day, and they think about it at night," says San Francisco Assemblyman Art Agnos. Last week a California congresswoman was accused of thinking about it too much. A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted three-term Representative Bobbi Fiedler for allegedly offering to help State Senator Ed Davis retire a $100,000 campaign debt if he dropped out of a nine-way primary race for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate. Fiedler called the charge "ridiculous...
Since John Williams, 52, took over from Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops four years ago, the number of oldsters in the audience has diminished and the youngsters increased, but one thing has not changed: the irreverent Pops musicians whoop derisively at the more cornball program choices and read and talk through rehearsals. Last week, after one of his own works was greeted by surreptitious hisses at a run-through, Williams finally decided that enough was enough. The conductor-composer, whose most recent score was for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, will turn in his Pops...
...Green Mountains, to Northampton. On the courthouse lawn there, John Coolidge will unveil a new gray granite bust of his father, the tardy fulfillment of a memorial first promised in 1934. The sculptor is Frank Gaylord II of Barre, Vt., whose pantheon includes William Penn, John Kennedy, Arthur Fiedler and Martin Luther King...