Word: leon
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...defendant. While running in the primary, Yarbrough had 13 civil suits against him pending in state and federal courts. Last June, just after his nomination, a Houston jury returned a verdict against him in a suit charging him with malpractice and false promises. Says former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, now back practicing law in Houston: "From all I can ascertain, he does not have the qualifications to sit on the supreme court." The grievance committee of the Texas bar is now considering recommending formal disbarment proceedings against Yarbrough. Says Committee Head John Teed: "We will leave no stone unturned...
...performance of Leon Kirchner's 1960 Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 winds, and percussion which followed, also carried this sense of motion and drive. Kirchner, in comments on this work, has emphasized the extent to which he has retained roots in music like the Back, rather than concentrating only on the "nowness" of modern music. The Concerto reflects this concern, as Kirchner writes in the modern idiom, but with warmth and not numbing austerity. On Tuesday night, the brass and percussion were especially noteworthy; the former carrying out their role as an antiphonal block, the latter as understated punctuation. Lawrence...
...veteran pitcher for the Negro National League who figures the time has come to stand up against the gangsterism of the club owners. He puts together his own club, with some of the league's best talent and with the help of a heavy-hitting catcher named Leon Carter (James Earl Jones). An actor with the kind of power that can easily turn to bluster, Jones here is at his best; he makes Leon appropriately larger than life without ever letting him be come a sports-page cartoon...
That menacing wasp on the cover and the other pesky bugs pictured and written about in this week's cover story have bewitched, bothered or bitten Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, for quite some time. "My most bitter bug experience was in 1956," recalls Jaroff. "On assignment in Labrador for LIFE magazine I had to go through dense bush to get to Grand Falls. It was the height of the blackfly season, and I returned with 500 bites on my body. For 20 years, I've waited to get even...
...classical era, citizens of Cyrene, on the coast of what is now Libya, were required to turn out three times a year to fight locusts by crushing them. During the Middle Ages, people frequently relied on ecclesiastical courts to control infestation by pests. In 1120 the Bishop of Leon in France excommunicated the caterpillars that were consuming local crops. In 1488 the high vicar of Autun took a similar step; he directed priests of neighboring parishes to order weevils to stop their attacks on grainfields and to excommunicate the insects. Undeterred, the weevils...