Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grant to the Black Unity League in Louisville ran into resistance after three leaders of the group were charged with conspiracy to blow up oil storage tanks during a riot. Louisville Bishop C. Gresham Marmion asked that the grant be deferred until the three had been tried, but Leon Modeste, the black layman who directs the Special Program, made the grant on schedule. In North Carolina, a $30,000 grant to the Malcolm X Liberation University created a furor when the local bishop was denied a voice in passing on the grant. Episcopalians in his diocese cut their contributions...
Among the panelists are Assembly-woman Yvonne W. Brathwaite from the 63rd district of the California State Legislature; Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Otis M. Smith, a member of the Office of General Counsel for General Motors Corp.; Judge Edward F. Bell of the Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, Mich., president of the National Bar Association; and Donald L. Hollowell, regional director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and former private attorney to the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Others have also profited from the White House invasion. The Alpha Beta Supermarket, part of a chain, on El Camino Real takes in an extra $500 a week when the President is in town. Sometimes the White House orders put the manager, Leon Riley, on the phone to his food broker in Los Angeles, as the time when the chef ordered macadamia nut ice cream (it comes from Hawaii). "They've picked that up here and taken it back East with them," says Riley. And it took Alpha Beta a day and a half to get in Gruyere cheese...
Many a first-rate pianist has taken up conducting as a career. For Leonard Bernstein, the late George Szell and Daniel Barenboim, it was largely a matter of having a large and effusive talent-or sheer ambition-that simply had to spread into other fields. When Pianist Leon Fleisher took the podium last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, however, it was a case of dire necessity. Though he was once the foremost pianist of his generation, his right hand has been partly crippled since 1965, and he is trying to establish himself in a new career...
...plunged into the tiny but exciting piano repertory written for the left hand alone by Ravel, Prokofiev and Britten. Mastering the vast orchestral literature necessary for a conducting career will be a tougher job. But if anyone has the musical dedication and the talent to succeed, it is Leon Fleisher...