Word: leon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of contemporary works, performs new compositions by Harvard composers Cacioppo, Cardora and Wissmuller, in a free concert on Saturday at Holmes Hall, North House. Masterworks Chorale presents a festival of "Music of Our Time" on Sunday, including works of New England composers Arthur Berger, David Del Tredici and Leon Kirchner. This should be a very interesting recital, especially since Berger and Del Tredici will participate in the performance of their own works. The concert takes place at First and Second Church, Boston, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6.5 and 4 and information is available...
...getting him back, the Justice Department has agreed to drop an indictment charging Park with 36 counts of assorted crimes, including bribery, mail fraud and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. But Park could still risk jail should he commit perjury in his interrogation; and Leon Jaworski, the House Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, is persuaded that that fact will encourage him to tell it like...
Most colleges are leery of hastily unloading their holdings. In response to student pressure, many have instead established policy committees that compare the affirmative-action policies of each company with a set of guidelines established by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black civil rights activist and General Motors board member. After such studies, Smith College, for one, kept most of its disputed stock but sold 42,000 shares of Firestone because, says the college, the company failed to give an adequate account of its South African policies. In another approach, the University of Minnesota is pressuring companies directly by introducing...
...Punches in fights eventually cost him two front teeth, causing the gap that has become his trademark. Spinks' parents separated some 13 years ago, and his mother taught Bible classes at home while keeping the impoverished family going with welfare money and maternal grit. His father once punished Leon by suspending him from a nail and administering a beating, and regularly assured his son-and anyone else who would listen-that he would "never amount to anything." Recalls Spinks: "That became my thing. To be somebody...
...always an enemy. Experience can equip an athlete with a savvy to compensate for what he has lost in reflexes. As Ali said in demanding a rematch with Leon Spinks last week: "I may be old, but I'm not dumb." But in physical competition, an old pro's tricks can only postpone retirement...