Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everybody has soul." She spent most of the evening seated next to bugle-beaded Ann-Margret. Invitations called for "black tie or glitter funk," a dress code broad enough to bring put Pop Artist Andy Warhol ("I just wanted to see Ann-Margret"), Marion Javits, wife of Senator Jacob Javits, Actor Anthony Perkins and a sampling of transvestites, tuxedoed Hollywood agents and blue-jeaned rock freaks. The glitter blitz blared until 2 a.m., leaving Columbia Pictures with a bill of some $35,000 for food, flowers and guards. The whole spectacle was unsettling to Tommy Composer and Who Guitarist Pete...
...Jacob Javits...
...most important outcomes of the Bicentennial project, however, is the way different orchestras have joined to share the commissioning and guarantee wide audiences for the results. Example: John Cage, Elliott Carter, Leslie Bassett, Jacob Druckman, David Del Tredici and Morton Subotnick are writing works for, respectively, the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Each orchestra is committed to play not just the work it has commissioned but all other five works. A similar round robin will involve seven orchestras in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Washington...
...Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams Jr. has introduced a bill that would empower the President to bar individual foreign investments of more than 5% in U.S. firms; investments by Arabs or, for that matter, anyone else participating in a commercial boycott would be prohibited altogether. Says New York Republican Jacob Javits, a strong proponent of the Williams bill: "These people [the Arabs] are trying to coerce Americans into discriminating against other Americans. In other words, they are trying to subvert the very foundations of our republic." Advocates of the Williams bill say that their target is the Arabs' "secondary boycott...
...part of an unwillingness to come to terms with reality which unfortunately characterizes a great deal of recent American foreign policy. Throughout the 14-year period, Castro repeatedly expressed his readiness to establish amicable relations with this country. And just last fall, the Cuban government conveyed to visiting Senators Jacob K. Javits and Claiborne Pell its anxiousness to achieve a detente with the United States...