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...Houston Symphony Olympics, a cacophonous assembly of nine celebrity guest conductors who showed up last week for a publicity-stunt contest that generated more than 1,500 new subscribers for the symphony season. All conducted themselves admirably-and the suffering orchestra less well. In the end, local TV Journalist Marvin Zindler copped the gold with his rendition of the "William Tell"Overture. Former N.B. A. Star Calvin Murphy successfully shot for the silver with Sweet Georgia Brown, and Space Shuttle Pilot Engle blasted his way to the bronze with the theme from Star Wars. As for the symphony players, Engle...
...last Sunday witnessed the death of a singer who had managed to bridge the gap between the seventies and the sixties. Marvin Gaye had sustained the powerful appeal of his sixties recordings, while altering his style and his focus to offer comment on the new problems that faced the seventies and eighties. In doing so. Gaye became tied to the hopes of those generations in a way the Beatles...
...Marvin Gaye, just like Diana Ross, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, had a special right to carry the Motown torch. Hired as a drummer for Smokey Robinson, Gaye instantly began a career as a soloist that culminated in his rise as one of the first Motown stars daring to criticize the Establishment. He challenged the war with "What's Going On?," lashed out at pollution with "Mercy, Mercy Me," and called for hope by recording, with Tammi Terrell, the Ashford and Simpson hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." His songs also influenced later white artists; the Rolling...
...marsh and sand that meets the Atlantic about midway between Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. Simons, pronounced Simmons ("I'm a rare one-m Simons"), lives in this area among the palmettos, scrub oaks, fiddler crabs, and slave descendants who speak Gullah and keep the faith at Marvin's R.O. Sweet Shop and Baby Grand. There, Simons says, "I am a celebrity because I'm white, not even teen-age yet, and possess the partial aura of the Duchess...
...West Germany's wooded lands, causing an annual $509 million in damages to timber and related industries. So far, the U.S. decline has been measured mostly in aesthetic and recreational losses. But it is beginning to have an economic cost as well. Sugar Maple Harvester David Marvin, for example, has lost all the maple trees on ten acres of his 700-acre Vermont spread. A reduction in maple trees could spell disaster for the state's $10 million-a-year sugar industry. Other areas could be hit hard as well. Says Joe McClure of the Southern Region Office...