Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glenn E. Jackson
...music almost everywhere is "disco sound": heavy back beat, uptempo, often with Big Band effects. Favorite artists are Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood...
Willie the Wheel starts things rolling tonight at Sword-in-the-Stone (523-9168) with bluegrass guitar, the second act is the Steve Moor--Bob Boucher guitar duo. Friday Chance Langton shows his 50s and 60s stuff along with Steve Saroni, who compares with Glenn Yarborough of the Limeliters. Saturday it's Jill and MoChing with folkal vocals and John Rollins with traditional and original folk. Sundays and Tuesdays are open hoots, call first if you want to play...
...wants them to hold a briefing for reporters on the decision to cancel two breeder-reactor projects that Carter had mentioned to Senators Glenn, Ribicoff and Percy. "It might reassure [Japanese Premier Takeo] Fukuda and [West German Chancellor Helmut] Schmidt to understand that we are making distinctions between our own situation and theirs," Carter says...
After the meeting, Carter pulls Glenn aside for a private chat. "I really need your help on this tax rebate thing," the President says. "The whole economic-stimulus package is going to fail if we go ahead piecemeal and provide benefits for business and then ignore the working people." Glenn's response is noncommittal. Carter thanks him anyway, then rushes into the Oval Office for the day's most publicized activity: signing the bill giving him most of the authority he sought in order to begin reorganizing the federal bureaucracy...