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Lynn Chang, Stephen Hammer, Richard Yoder, and Yo-Yo Ma were the the soloists in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante in B flat. Lynn Chang glowed in the limelight, playing the violin with just the right amount of youthful schmaltz, giving the entire piece energy and impulse. In their lesser roles, Richard Yoder's bassoon, Stephen Hammer's oboe, and Yo-Yo Ma's cello blended beautifully...
...effects because they destroy only small numbers of cells in localized parts of the brain. Opponents of psychosurgery say that neurologists still know too little about the brain and that performing these operations is, as State Senator Chester Atkins [D-Concord] has said, the equivalent of using a sledge hammer to tune a piano...
...SEVEN-UPS are a squad of special cops operating inside the New York City police force. They are brutally efficient, although they could hardly be called an elite corps; their tactics owe as much to football fields and medieval dungeons as the precinct house. The movie, coarse and hammer hard, follows the cops as they bust up an underworld kidnaping ring and avenge the death of a squad member. Director Philip d'Antoni, who produced Bullitt and The French Connection, has cut The Seven-Ups to pattern. The chase scene measures up just fine against its predecessors...
...committee "will hammer something out," he added...
...Western American in 1967 when it was formed by four banks, each representing a separate world market area, and soon built its assets from $8.4 million to $ 1.6 billion. If Baird can duplicate that remarkable financial performance at Occidental, he should become a prime candidate eventually to succeed Hammer. But for the present, as one financier close to Occidental puts it, Hammer "hasn't the slightest intention of relinquishing control to Baird. He will rely on him as a good financial man, and that's about...