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DIED. Jo Jones, 73, innovative jazz drummer known as "the man who plays like the wind" for his new lighter, looser rhythms, dynamic shadings, adroit accents and inventive ad libs, who buoyed the Count Basie band from 1935 to '48, toured with such greats as Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson and led his own small combos, which often included other Basie alumni; of pneumonia; in New York City. He was often confused with "Philly" Joe Jones, 62, drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet in the 1950s and an innovator in the transition from the swing era to the "cool" jazz...
Nearly a decade after it chose the site for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Park, to be located at the corners of Memorial Drive and JFK Street, the state is finalizing its construction plans...
...restless body, which never spared itself in sport or danger, was destined to give him one last proud gallop at the end." That fugitive entry from F. Scott Fitzgerald's notebooks characterized his fellow Princetonian Hobey Baker, a man who seemed to have been written rather than born. He was blond, handsome, wealthy, the ultimate preppy more than two generations before the word was coined. In his college days (circa 1912) he led Princeton's football and hockey teams, dazzled classmates and debutantes, then when war came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later...
...episode since violence between Protestant and Catholic militants first erupted in 1969. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who escaped an I.R.A. bombing attempt on her life last October at Brighton, in the south of England, called the attack "barbaric." Echoing her sentiments, the Irish Republic's Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, described the I.R.A. assault as "cruel and cynical" and pledged that Irish security forces would help hunt the attackers down. Police suspect that the killers may have slipped across the border into the republic, less than five miles from Newry...
...Brighton explosion, the organization had seemed to suffer one setback after another, starting with the September interception by the Irish navy of a trawler loaded with seven tons of arms and ammunition for the I.R.A. In December British soldiers ambushed and killed two I.R.A. gunmen, and last month the FitzGerald government seized more than $1.6 million in suspected I.R.A. bank assets in Dublin...