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When the 24-year-old Perdue returned to his home in Hallandale, Fla., all but three members of Perdue's American Legion post showed up to celebrate the acquittal of their most popular young popular young member...
...starts out with a sort of cream of the crop-probably more honor society members and high school quarterbacks than anyone needs. And, yes, brains mix with brains, producing some fine academic work and some excellent extracurricular groups. But most of all, you will be courted to join the legion of leaders...
...Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, the French ambassador to the U.S., answered, "Yanie." "Well, then," said the 74-year-old musician, "this tune will be called Yanie." He played a few bars for the crowd that had gathered in Manhattan's French consulate to see Ellington presented with the French Legion of Honor-the first to go to a jazz musician. The ambassador answered back on the piano with a few bars of Ellington's Mood Indigo...
...often reaches 180° F. Despite these forbidding conditions, foreigners have lately been scurrying in and out of the West African republic of Mauritania, at the western end of the Sahara -hiring the few available trucks, renting plots of land and even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell the sun will darken?" a herdsman asks. "Only God can know that...
Buddy Miles. Known, to his less than legion fans as Brotha Bud, Buddy Miles, to a lesser extent than Jimi Hendrix, has begun to appeal to both blacks and whites. Buddy dabbles in many instruments, masters none, and is primarily known as rock's most primitive drummer, a real master at percussive noise. What's carried Bud through something like seven albums, dating from his Electric Flag days, is Funk, and it's not hard to figure out how he got that. Musically, though, it's the result of time put in with big soul bands, like Wilson Pickett...