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Loud Genius. Abzug comes by all of her contradictions honestly. The daughter of a Russian immigrant named Emmanuel Savitsky, she rang the cash register in his Live and Let Live meat market on Manhattan's Ninth Avenue as a girl, attended Hunter College and Columbia law school, where she was an editor of the Law Review. Before it was fashionable, she was a strong civil rights advocate who once defended a black man in Mississippi accused of raping a white woman. She was seven months' pregnant then and slept in a Jackson bus station one night sitting upright...
Thus, on his day, Colombo moved easily through the crowd, shaking hands, joking, posing for photographers. Suddenly shots rang out, barely audible above the noise of the happy crowd. Colombo crumpled to the ground, bleeding heavily from the head and neck...
...director of merchandising for Columbia Records, Munves was the man who dreamed up that company's "Classical Greatest Hits" series-Bach, Brahms, Bernstein, just about anyone. The records did nothing for the purists, but they scored a solid bull's-eye in the market and rang up $1,000,000 in new and unexpected wholesale revenues for Columbia. Munves was also the first executive to turn on to Switched-On Bach, when almost everyone else at Columbia was turning off. Now, 2½ years after its release, Bach on the Moog synthesizer is still...
...phone rang one evening last week in the Governor's mansion in Richmond, Va. "Hello, Governor," said the caller. "This is Ron Ziegler speaking from Air Force One." Republican Governor Linwood Holton, a longtime friend and supporter of Nixon, had trouble hearing because of the electronic noises in the background. But he recognized Ziegler's voice and the message was clear: the President wanted to see Holton at the White House at 10 a.m. the next day. Holton quickly canceled his other appointments and flew off to see the President...
...Latin America, and most of the students are ending the year with an air of steady purpose. Last week several groups seated on the floor kept on working right through one of the school's two daily bells (for lunch and dismissal). Finally one girl remarked, "The bell rang, I think...