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...point is, rock 'n' roll is an art form that was created by blacks. "It started out as rhythm and blues," says Little Richard, the flamboyant rock pioneer who saw such tumultuous songs of his as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally taken to the charts in white-bread "cover" versions by the likes of Pat Boone. "There wasn't nobody playing it at the time but black people--myself, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry. White kids started paying more attention to this music, white girls were going over to this music, they needed somebody to come in there--like Elvis...
...will also be a deep and moving experience to honor Quincy Jones, who is not only a pioneer in African-American music but also someone who is emblematic of the cross-cultural relationship which this conference recognizes and celebrates," he said...
...AFRICAN AMERICANS, the first week of April has often been a time when their heroes have died. In 1950 it was blood-plasma pioneer Dr. Charles R. Drew. In 1968 it was Martin Luther King Jr. Last week it was Carl Stokes of Cleveland, the first black big-city mayor, and Ron Brown, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Commerce, who at 54 perished doing what he always did best: trying to make deals...
...emily's tactics to the trial lawyers. Her association has asked the Federal Election Commission for an O.K. to begin "partisan communications" with its members, in which the group would endorse candidates and recommend both the timing and amount of contributions. Liapakis, who learned litigation from personal-injury pioneer Harry Lipsig, describes her plan in terms of civic duty. "This is about educating our members," she says, as if enhanced political power were merely an incidental by-product. She knows better. Last December A.T.L.A. member Bill Lerach, a San Diego securities litigator whose firm has given more than $1 million...
DIED. DAVID PACKARD, 83, electronics and computer pioneer; in Stanford, California. The "Birthplace of Silicon Valley," an official California State landmark, is the garage where Packard and his Stanford University classmate William Hewlett opened a workshop in 1939. Today Hewlett-Packard is the nation's second largest computer maker (behind IBM). Packard eschewed corporate pomposity, preferring "management by walking around" to keep employee morale high and focus on achieving objectives. In the '60s, he met with Stanford students protesting his company's defense contracts, and later mediated talks between them and their school. His personable style and civic activism inspired...