Word: nelson
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...Pennsylvania title from the car lists a Trenton, NJ. address. Six N.Y.P.D. officers head for Trenton; the address is phony. Others head for Philadelphia to check out Nelson Hernandez, listed as the car's owner. They learn that he has bought at least five cars in recent weeks; all the addresses on the papers are false. Back in New York, the police check out a dozen possible Frankies and are convinced their man is Frankie Segarra, a small-time pusher. Other officers trace a dog-vaccination certificate that they found in the Plymouth to the girl friend...
...ingenuity. The New Hungarian and Juilliard quartets will show why in recitals this week and next. Beethoven himself stood in awe of Haydn's oratorios The Seasons and The Creation. They are both on the schedule. So are ten of the Masses, notably In Tempore Belli and Lord Nelson. High among the novelties this week will be a marionette performance of Philemon und Baucis at the Smithsonian and a rare staging by the Indiana University Opera Theater of The World on the Moon, a lighthearted farce...
Yale also announced yesterday that William H. Donaldson, former under secretary of state and an adviser to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, will head the school next fall...
Ronstadt is one of the most innovative and sophisticated country singers around. If anything can save country music from the mindless banality of the Conway Twittys and Bill Andersons who now dominate the industry, it is Ronstadt and other "progressive" country singers like Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris. Teaming up with Harris, Ronstadt is by now so self-assured that she can lay back and let her partner carry half the load on "The Sweetest Gift," a touchingly simple balled about a mother who visits her son in jail, with an uncontemporary message...
...offerings have already come in from the Republican hierarchy. From Nelson Rockefeller: "The best part about being Vice President is presiding over the Senate. Where else could I have Barry Goldwater addressing me as 'Mr. President?' " A Barry Goldwater offering: "The other day I phoned the White House, got the Oval Office on the President's private line, told one of my best jokes and the only one who laughed was Jack Anderson." Every Republican member of Congress will be asked to contribute to the joke book, but one R.N.C. staffer allows that "probably some of them...