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ALBUM: MILES & QUINCY LIVE AT MONTREUX...
Through the years, Duffy has interviewed some of the world's most revered cultural stars. "Vladimir Nabokov started out very formidable, asking for questions ahead of time," she recalls of a 1969 interview. "But once I traveled to Switzerland and saw him in Montreux, he was whimsical and utterly charming." In the world of ballet, a specialty of Duffy's, Peter Martins was "candid to a fault," while Mikhail Baryshnikov often offered "poetic responses" to her questions. Perhaps Duffy's secret is that she notices and records the variety in this world exceptionally well...
McKusick also directs the Human Genome Organization (known informally as "Victor's HuGO"), a group formed last September in Montreux, Switzerland, by 42 scientists representing 17 nations. "The U.N. of gene mapping," as McKusick describes it, plans to open three data-collection and -distribution sites, one each in Japan, North America and Europe...
...Arms Control Association, a Washington-based research and lobbying group, denounced the findings as "largely stale claims." Stale indeed may have been the allegation that the Soviets are sending aircraft carriers through the Turkish straits in defiance of the 1936 Montreux Convention, which the U.S. did not sign...
DIED. A.J. Cronin, 84, Scottish physician turned author whose bestselling novels include Hatter's Castle (1931), The Citadel (1937) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1941); of acute bronchitis; near Montreux, Switzerland...