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...crowd sweltering under a tent on the South Lawn of the White House last week had gathered at a great occasion. On a platform were Conductor Leonard Slatkin and, instruments at the ready, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. In the audience: the President of the United States. But the real guest of honor was the shade of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose long-lost Symphony in F, K. 19a, was having its American premiere more than two centuries after it was written and several months after it mysteriously surfaced in West Germany. The composer was all of nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart Debuts at the White House | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...people of L.A. rolled into one aggressively insane crowd. Firecrackers exploded a few feet from the crowd, some right in the crowd. Nobody seemed to mind. The bridge shook under the weight of the people. Across the street from the Holiday Inn, hundreds of people camped out on the lawn of a McDonald's. Hundreds more balanced themselves precariously on a railing at the top of a six-level parking garage. Others took the elevator to the roof of the Holiday Inn before police were called in to kick them...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Of Smog and Stucco | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

America may be catching up with even this sport of outcasts, though. In the middle of the field at the hill's bottom, there were a dozen campers. Next to one sat a middle-aged couple in lawn chairs, out there in the middle of the heat and the drone of the engines. After a while, their son returns, walking his motorcycle. "I won the 12-and-under," he says with a smile. His mother hugs him; his father beams and says, "He usually wins, you know." This family, which lives in New Hampshire, travels around New England to hill...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

Before the U.S. sweep, Wimbledon was sent reeling by press and government inquiries into British tennis. Those investigations criticized the cozy relationship between the private All England Club, which runs the Wimbledon championships, and the British Lawn Tennis Association, to which it is responsible. Despite tournament revenues of $5 million and a requirement that the All England Club help support national tennis programs, only $62,000 trickled down to train aspiring players in 1980. Even more galling, the 375 memberships in the blueblooded club, which cost only $17.50 in annual dues, were said to be worth the equivalent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fire and Ice at Wimbledon | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...hearts of students and staff. Everyone who sees her at the K-School takes the time to stop and chat: She take issues, but not herself, seriously. Once, when her contemporaries were furiously studying for finals, she bought a kite and flew it on the K-School lawn...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Lori Forman: Taking on the K-School | 6/3/1981 | See Source »

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