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...Columbia Records issued in its Black Composers Series, a project that the firm unfortunately seems to have discontinued. With the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, led by Black conductor Paul Freeman, Allen gives a stunning performance of the Violin Concerto (1962) by Black composer Roque Cordero (b. 1917), a native of Panama who for some years has been professor of music at Illinois State University...
...part of his appeal today is due to nostalgia. In hindsight, particularly because of Carter's shortcomings, Ford seems to have been a better President than he was considered at the time. But he is at odds with Reagan on many questions ranging from the ERA to the Panama Canal. At 67, he could offer the 69-year-old Reagan no help on the age issue; some voters might even have found a Reagan-Ford ticket slightly out of tune with the G.O.P. convention slogan: TOGETHER?A NEW BEGINNING. With Bush, 56, as Reagan's running mate, the G.O.P. ticket...
Leading the right-wing assault was the imperturbable Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who reveled in the admiration of a coterie of delegates as he railed against the Panama Canal Treaties and the recognition of mainland China. But by now the Reagan forces were alarmed at the attacks on the platform by what some of them called the "grass eaters and know nothings." Congressman Jack Kemp and Richard Allen, Reagan's top foreign policy adviser, managed to prevent any alteration of the party planks on Panama and China. Allen emphasized that Reagan, while deploring the brusque way Carter severed...
...Editor Robert L. Bartley, 42, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, encourages his five writers to develop their own sources and even break news on occasion. For example, the agreement under which the deposed Shah of Iran left Texas' Lackland Air Force Base for Panama last year was first disclosed in a Journal editorial...
...Louis vs. Billy Conn, Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Jake La-Motta. In one corner, Sugar Ray Leonard, 24, the World Boxing Council welterweight champion, a virtuoso boxer with stunningly swift hands and a made-for-television smile. In the other corner, Roberto Duran, 29, the former lightweight titlist, a Panama City ruffian with manos de piedra (hands of stone) and a menacing countenance...