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...idea for the festival came from Antal Dorati, music director of the National Symphony and, among other things, conductor of a mammoth LP set of all 104 symphonies on London Records (46 records in all). Why a festival? How else, asks Dorati, to show the enormous range of the man and his music? He adds: "He was no child prodigy. He developed so much, from enormous talent into great genius. I do not think it can be coincidence that his greatest work came after he shed his livery." That was of course after he was given free rein...
...Like its mammoth defense competitors Northrop and Raytheon--and unnamed others--Lockheed apparently has directed enormous sums to Saudi Arabia's flashy contract agent, Adnan Khashoggi, and his mysterious Triad Corporation. Lockheed officials reportedly payed Khashoggi $106 million in the last five years: the ante is high, but in the unreal world of big-money defense contracts, the stakes are higher still. In Europe, Africa and the Middle East, uneasy rulers are channeling huge sums into sophisticated weapons systems, and American companies are fighting with each other and with foreign competition to obtain slices of the increasingly lucrative...
There were hospitality suites, mammoth displays, scurrying salesmen in double-knit suits and white shoes, lissome models in hot pants and boots-all the personnel and paraphernalia used every day at U.S. trade shows. Only the merchandise was hardly everyday at the 29th annual Air Force Association Convention in Washington last week. Its purpose was to allow weapons manufacturers to display their wares to Pentagon brass hats, who buy, and Congressmen, who vote to pay the bills. The result was a blend of bombs and blinking lights, where some of the most deadly armaments were packaged and promoted...
...those looking for action, the gay bar is a long-established meeting place. As police harassment has declined, the bars have proliferated. There are now some 4,000 in the country. Once seedy, dark and dangerous, many gay bars are now bright and booming. A few have developed into mammoth entertainment centers. Studio One in Los Angeles has four bars, a restaurant, game rooms and a nightclub that also attracts ordinary heterosexuals and stars like Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Liza Minnelli. "Gay people like to be awed by their own numbers," says Peter Winokur, manager of Mother...
...first time in Harvard's history, last year a student art exhibit was displayed. Because anyone from the university was permitted to submit material, the exhibit was a mammoth one, with work ranging from the traditional to the highly unorthodox. The newly formed Student Association of Visual Studies, which organized the show, is planning to petition for permanent space in Carpenter Center next year, so that students work will have a showcase all year...