Word: oaklands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bentz's two-year tenure in the classroom has come to a sudden and inglorious end; he has been arrested in Oakland on 16 felony warrants charging, of course, white-collar crimes. Bentz, a tractor salesman, is accused of bilking purchasers and bouncing checks...
...premiere of Orbits was one of his most ambitious formations yet. Many of the performers belonged to a San Francisco trombone choir called the Bay Bones. Reinforcements included the entire trombone sections of the San Francisco and Oakland Symphonies and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. One musician came all the way from Florida. Brant's music is fairly frequently played by major ensembles, but he has no illusions about the practicality of a work for 80 trombones. "I think no further than the first performance," he says. "Probably when Berlioz wrote his Requiem, which needs four brass bands...
...Flores, former assistant to John Madden, was named to succeed him as head coach of the Oakland Raiders yesterday...
...19th century English Luddites smashed machines in a doomed effort to preserve the jobs of textile workers. California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...
...Oakland, Calif...