Word: paras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish Composer Joaquin Rodrigo's Fantasia para Gentilhombre, performed by the San Francisco Symphony under Spanish Conductor Enrique Jordá, with famed Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia as soloist. Said blind Joaquin Rodrigo, 55, Spain's No. 1 contemporary composer: "I was afraid to compose a work for so great a guitarist." Replied Segovia: "I was afraid to perform it." After the low Spanish bows were over, soloist and orchestra set to work, unveiled an appealing, fastidious, slightly melancholy piece whose dance rhythms gave Segovia's guitar a chance to enthrall the audience...
...Third para: What the Queen wore...
...Fourth para: What the Queen Mother wore...
...Fifth para: Who was with the Queen. Where they sat. How the weather was-it was to the Queen's taste...
...dispute centers on Edwards' stubborn fight against Florida's "early-release" policy, which has cut the average TB patient's hospital stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities...