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...Marvin Gaye Show. This is Marvin Gaye's first tour in more than three years. This time he's added a show consisting of a sizeable back-up band, chorus, and an MC who goes by the name of Gorgeous George. Reliable sources tell me he's got to be seen to be believed. The live performance is representative of his album release, so unless you want to witness a living legend, it might be wiser to pick up the album. The concert's this Friday, October 11, 8:30 p.m. at the Boston Garden. Tickets...
...become overprotective for fear of letting him down. Through the best of intentions, they thus confirm him in his illusions. Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel, whose husband of 32 years, the Democratic Governor of Maryland, deserted her last year in order to marry a younger woman, concurs. "A man like Marvin Mandel, he starts to believe what his staff tells him, and they only tell him what he wants to hear. Then he comes home, and his wife tells him the truth...
...dispute has been simmering since April, when Alice Moore, a member of the Kanawha County school board, objected to many books chosen for the fall term by the teachers' Textbook Selection Committee. Then the Rev. Marvin Horan of the Leewood Freewill Baptist Church took up the crusade, and opposition to the books spread among the county's strict fundamentalists. They took exception, among other things, to Sigmund Freud's Character and Anal Eroticism, selections by Pulitzer-prizewinning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Authors Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver, and a profile of Poet Allen Ginsberg featuring a description...
...wrecked the country can be pardoned, this defendant can be released to get proper treatment." The release was countermanded by a higher judge. County Judge Kirk Smith pardoned two traffic law violators in Grand Forks, N.D., as "an act of clemency" in response to Ford's action. Federal Judge Marvin Frankel reduced a 30-day sentence for a New York tax evader to a $1,000 fine on grounds that potential charges against Nixon involved far greater underpayments of taxes. From his federal district court bench in Chicago, Judge Hubert Will deplored the notion "that political criminals can get away...
Gore certainly did not. Campaigning as a Republican loyalist, she won largely by criticizing Hogan for his apostasy. In the coming election, Gore will have to develop a platform to run against feisty Democratic Governor Marvin Mandel, 54, who won his primary easily despite the fact that in July he divorced his wife of 32 years and married a woman 17 years his junior the same...