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...Office Bonanza. Prior to the 1892 première at the Maryinsky Theater in old St. Petersburg, Russia, Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky thought that Nutcracker was much inferior to his The Sleeping Beauty. "Yes, the old fellow is getting worn out," he concluded. Tchaikovsky was one of music's great pessimists. The score is an indestructible delight. Over the years Nutcracker has probably played to more children, parents and lovers of both dance and make-believe than any other ballet in history...
...CARTER: In the East, New York Times, New York Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Daily News, Long Island (N.Y.) Press. In the South, Atlanta Constitution, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Nashville's Tennessean, Miami News, Louisville Courier-Journal. In the Midwest, Des Moines Register, Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis Star, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal. In the West, Denver Post...
...surprisingly, Bellow himself is the literal heir to two cultures. He was born in a suburb of Montreal in 1915, the fourth and last child of Russian Jews who had just emigrated from St. Petersburg. His father, an educated man, became a small-time trader and, in Bellow's phrase, "a sharpie circa 1905 in Russia." In 1924 the family settled on Division Street in Chicago; Bellow thus grew up speaking English, Hebrew, Yiddish and French. Twice-removed from the land of his parents-and a Jew in the predominantly Protestant Midwest -Bellow had good reason to wonder where...
...panelists backing Ford has doubts about him because of his pardon of Richard Nixon. Voicing many of these suspicions, Marie Flaherty, the wife of an insurance salesman in St. Petersburg, Fla., said: "I think it was planned between Ford and Nixon." The pardon also rankles with two out of three panelists supporting Carter. Said Dorothy Duncan, a conservative Democrat from Salem, Va.: "Nixon should have been treated like any other man and gotten the punishment that any other man would have gotten." In addition, six out of ten Carter supporters shared the complaint of Isabelle Sullivan, a blue-collar Democrat...
...Sperry Rand will begin production in January of electronic components at a $6 million plant now going up on 80 acres near St. Petersburg, Fla. The operation will employ 1,000 people at first, ultimately perhaps...