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Melba Hamilton, president of the South Boston Residents' Group, said the coalition opposes the reorganization because it believes a new Massport would implement plans for longer runways, compounding the noise problems Boston residents already face...
Hamilton said yesterday the coalition group would work to make the FAA produce an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which would evaluate the effect of current flight headings. "We want a statement to prove that 210 degrees is the worst possible heading they could use," she added...
...Placid, N.Y., where local housing has already been rented in advance at astronomical prices. Other future charters mclude a seven-day tour of Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park in Utah in September, a week's tour of the Grand Canyon in August, and next month, a rock group has booked the Snoozer for the first leg of a West Coast concert tour...
...their California headquarters. The battle involves a $1.5 million defamation suit rising from charges and countercharges made by Wurmbrand about Bass's personal behavior, and it threatens to spread to questions about Bass's ways of accounting for some of the $8.7 million a year his group raises. The situation could take years to untangle. The two organizations together depend on contributions and account for nearly $17 million of the estimated $30 million a year raised for such ventures, and their embarrassing fight could do more harm to the program than anything Communist police and customs officers might...
This latest collection of a dozen profiles, mostly from his New Yorker criticism, is Balliett's "act of homage to a highly gifted and unaccountably neglected group of Americans." They are America's nonclassical singers: figures like Mabel Mercer, Tony Bennett and Ray Charles, who straddle the worlds of theater tunes, blues and popular standards. They work within a rich tradition that came out of ragtime and came in with the fascinating rhythms of George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. The early singers were "intuitive and homemade," Balliett observes, but their descendants are sophisticated musicians who blend the soft...