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...Scottsdale, Ariz., National Rifle Association President Joe Foss knows exactly where he stands on the question of gun control. A highly decorated World War II fighter pilot, a former Governor of South Dakota, first commissioner of the American Football League, and a retired brigadier general, Foss speaks with the relish of a man with unyielding convictions. "I say all guns are good guns," he pronounces. "There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be an armed nation. Period...
...actually change? At larger stations, probably very little. Says Dennis FitzSimons, general manager of Chicago's independent WGN- TV: "Our policy has always been to air opposing views and to be fair." But smaller stations may be a different matter. For instance, under the old rule, says Robert L. Foss of the Florida Association of Broadcasters, many small operators hesitated to air editorials...
...Foss Tighe, a CASA member and Somerville resident, said, "A lot of people have joined us today just because of the house vote and a lot of those people wanted to get out and to voice their opposition...
Others disagree with this notion, however, saying that tradition is equally important. "You can't simply buy a great orchestra," says Boston's Morris. "You have to build a tradition, and preserve it." Lukas Foss, Milwaukee's conductor, puts it bluntly: "Money makes you famous, not great...
...elements so rich and varied that it would have international appeal." State and local governments chipped in half of the $4.8 million budget, and new works were commissioned from a dozen or so major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne...