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...public courtship began last month, when Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds toured the black communities in the rural Mississippi Delta to check into voting discrimination. With Jesse Jackson as his guide, the patrician Reynolds dined on catfish sandwiches and grits, listened to horror stories and, holding Jackson's hand, sang We Shall Overcome. Then he returned to Washington and dispatched federal registrars to five Mississippi counties to register voters. It was a symbolic journey in a presidential campaign season: Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, has been a key target of black leaders...
Shultz's praise for Pickering glossed over a power struggle that has absorbed Washington ever since the Secretary of State abruptly announced on an airplane bound for the Williamsburg summit that he would replace the tall, patrician Enders. According to the Administration, the shift was merely routine. In fact, it brought into the open a fight over who would control U.S. policy in Central America and especially in embattled El Salvador. In theory, the change left Shultz in absolute charge of Central American affairs, but some skeptics wondered if the shuffle might leave more authority with the White House...
...Boston Symphony. The patrician Boston Symphony is the quintessential major orchestra: old (101) and wealthy, with a comfortable home in the acoustically excellent Symphony Hall and a bucolic summer retreat at Tanglewood, in the Berkshires. A11 this would not be worth much, though, if the orchestra did not play so consistently well: under music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass...
...While patrician orchestras such as Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia, with their large subscriber lists and potent fund-raising capabilities, continue to operate without a financial loss, others are almost perennially troubled. The Buffalo Philharmonic, nearly $1 million in debt, scaled back its season last year from 48 to 40 weeks; the Detroit Symphony, suffering along with its city from the recession, has an accumulated deficit of nearly $2.7 million. Despite Rostropovich's name value, the National Symphony showed a $2.2 million loss last year...
DIED. Thomas S. Gates, 76, a patrician Philadelphian who, as Secretary of Defense in the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, overhauled Pentagon management procedures, helping prepare the way for modern weapons and tactics, and authorized the ill-fated U-2 spy-plane flight of Francis Gary Powers; after a long illness; in Philadelphia. A banker by profession, Gates was president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. from 1962 to 1965 and chief of the U.S. mission in Peking...