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Died. Norman Eric Kirk, 51, thunder-voiced politician who ended the New Zealand Labor Party's twelve-year exile from power and became Prime Minister after a 1972 electoral sweep; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A onetime manual laborer...
...Norm " first went to Parliament in 1957 and climbed rapidly, rising to Labor Party chief when he was 42. As Prime Minister and also Foreign Minister, Kirk favored developing unindustrialized regions in his country's southern island, recalled New Zealand's troops from Southeast Asia and vociferously opposed French nuclear testing in the Pacific...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, next door at the Jazz Workshop until the end of the weekend, plays zillions of obscure instruments--the strich, for example--and generally puts on a high-energy show. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz, with a long track record, but as the novelty wears away he seems less special than he once did. Catch his act some time, but maybe not this week, with so much other good stuff...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is next door at the Jazz Workshop till the end of the weekend. Kirk is very high-energy and plays a zillion instruments, many of which you've never even heard of, often all at once. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz whose hay-days never seem to end. In a week less full of uniformly good stuff we'd recommend him without a second thought; he may be hard to squeeze in this week, what with Chem 20 hourlies piling up and all, but you really should catch his act at least once...
...Your story on conservative columnists failed to include Russell Kirk or Paul Harvey. These two have raised their firm opinions for many years in hundreds of newspapers across the country. Their label is certainly "conservative." Both were writing when the balance was heavily against them in favor of the liberals...