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...Laredo shows its street smarts...
DIED. Ivan Galamian, 78, internationally renowned teacher of violin who in 35 years at the Juilliard School of Music taught many of today's leading violinists, including Itzhak Permian, Pinchas Zuckerman, Kyung-wha Chung, James Buswell and Jaime Laredo; of a heart attack; in New York City. A stickler for technical detail who nevertheless encouraged each student to develop his own stylistic individuality, Galamian once said that he urged his charges "to study for the love of music, not with the hope of glory. People can get tired of glory, but not of something they love...
...America's oldest-and-newest fashion fad last? At Laredo in Chicago, Manager Tony Zimmerman says, "It's a very individualistic, very independent, very pro-American, very proud look. You stand up straight because of your boots." Men and women who have never been closer to a horse than a power-steered Mustang are crowding hundreds of new nightclubs specializing in country-and-western music, including one in Dallas - inspired by Urban Cowboy - that features an electronic bucking bull (price per ride: $2 for less than a minute). The clothes are certainly durable, comfortable and generally affordable...
Octaviano ("Chito") Longoria, 73, who started out selling gardenias on the streets of Nuevo Laredo, built a commercial empire that included banks, cattle ranches, movie theaters and a vegetable oil factory. His house in Bosques de las Lomas, he boasts, would rival any in the world. The mansion has a chamber bedecked with the heads of animals Longoria acquired on his 20 African safaris, and a "pink room" that is dominated by a huge rug of that color given to him by Morocco's royal family. Unlike many of Mexico's new rich, Longoria makes generous donations to charity...
Many states have long tried to accommodate the odd schedule by operating a patchwork of migrant programs. But the Palmyra school and 21 others scattered throughout the Midwest are run by the Texas Migrant Council (TMC), based in Laredo, Texas, which each summer sends teachers north to staff its preschool network, using funds from a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Head Start program. Before such programs existed, says TMC Executive Director Oscar Villarreal, "the infant children had no one to care for them when they were sick. They were left with ten-or twelve-year-old siblings who could...