Word: organize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federation's affiliated unions sit down with AFL-CIO representatives to coordinate their onslaught on Capitol Hill. The 51 state federations of the AFL-CIO are calling meetings to drum up more opposition to Ford's program, and the weekly AFL-CIO News, Meany's house organ (circ. 60,000), is shrilly calling for more action. Reads a typical headline: CONGRESS, FORD HIT FOR LACK OF URGENCY...
...manic clown, he cavorted down St. Charles Avenue and watched the Rex parade. The McCartneys have been secluded in New Orleans since mid-January, and this was their coming-out party. Paul is also making a record album, using local jazz musicians. Linda plays along on the organ. Paul was so impressed by the festivities that he wrote a new song, My Carnival, for his album. As to why they came to New Orleans, "It's a little crazy," says Paul...
Since the invention of the Hammond organ in 1935, hardly an instrument exists that has not been electrified. Piano, flute, violin, trumpet, drums -each has its own plugged-in cousin. Most conspicuous is pop-rock's king of instruments, the electric guitar. Ten years ago, from Engineering Physicist Robert Moog, came the Moog synthesizer, which first produced music through electricity alone. A nuclear-age superorgan, it looks like the offspring of a piano and a telephone switchboard...
John Ferris; Organ racital; Memorial Church; 8:30 p.m.; free...
...self-cultivations." By 1965, the only fact a self-respecting art historian would have deemed worthy of note about even the best of Benton's work, like The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley (1934), would have been that the lank boy in the foreground, playing a mouth organ, was a portrait of Benton's ex-pupil Jackson Pollock...