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...technique has proved to be a startlingly effective way of springing political prisoners. Equally important, it has brought worldwide attention to Latin America's urban guerrilla bands and the generally conservative regimes that they oppose. As long ago as 1958, Fidel Castro's Cuban guerrillas seized Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine auto-racing champion, then freed him after a tide of publicity. In the early 1960s, kidnaping was widely used by rebels in Guatemala and elsewhere to raise funds, but the victims were rarely foreigners...
...Administration's ambivalence on integration is best demonstrated by the beleaguered community of Pasadena, Calif. It was one of the first non-Southern school districts to be sued by the Justice Department for deliberately perpetuating de facto segregation?school imbalances resulting from residential racial patterns. Federal Judge Manuel Real found that Pasadena had failed to carry out integration plans and must act to eliminate segregation. School officials risked community wrath by deciding not to appeal the decision. But School Superintendent Ralph Hornbeck is understandably irritated. "It seems impossible to meet the court's criteria without compulsory busing," he explains...
From the first chord of "Jemima Surrender" to the last note of "Slippin" and Slidin it was as though The Band derived a peculiar pleasure from the very act of being on stage, playing their music. There was Richard Manuel, head turned away from the piano, eyes closed, his melodic voice drifting into the microphone. There was Levon Helm on drums, delivering the amazingly steady, but unobtrusive, beat that drives The Band. His eyes, too. were closed his head turned to the microphone. There was Rick Danko playing his archaic Fender Precision bass. But, oh, how he played...
...Saturday night, Robertson switched effortlessly from electric to classical guitar and back again. Hudson played four instruments, although his range includes eight. On a four-minute variation leading in to "Chest Fever," his sheer talent on the organ and his vast knowledge of popular and classical music poured forth. Manuel went from piano to drums on "This Wheel's on Fire" and "When You Awake," while Helm played rhythm and gut-string guitar, Danko, on bass, was never off as his lightning fingers rambled...
...MANUEL: I lean more into chord changes and melodic stuff. I can write music very easily, but when it comes to words, I cringe. It's hard to get those words in the right slot, to just get going...