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...grant from the Rita Allen Foundation in New York and a $275,000 from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in North Carolina will support a new toxicology unit headed by Dr. Armen H. Tashjian, professor of Toxicology at the School of Public Health...
...Rocker Billy Joel the dreary duty calls expected of a visiting VIP in Cuba. Between sets by a star-studded U.S. rock, pop and jazz caravan visiting Havana for the first concert of its kind in 20 years, fellow Performers Kris Kristofferson and Wife Rita Coolidge duly toured socialist showplaces, including a pioneer school. Billy, by contrast, crammed a peaked cap over his swirl of black curls, clamped a cigar in his teeth and settled down on a beach to rap with enthralled young Cubans, who, from tuning in to Miami rock stations, already knew the words to such Joel...
...Rita M. Breen, lecturer on History, said that with the exception of Libya, African countries would probably not come to Amin...
Many of the ENO singers have gone on to careers in the world's major opera houses, but this recording shows them in a very bad light. Rita Hunter's light-voiced Brunnhilde and Alberto Remedios' Siegfried are effective in the more lyrical passages, but neither really withstands the strain of these most taxing of roles. Hunter turns shrill and Remedios' diction decays. Much of the supporting cast has the same trouble, or others...
...government's recent liberalizing trend, they were "sequestered on farms feeding pigs." Although none of the Chinese Miller met knew of his work, there were some recollections of an earlier era. "They wanted to know a lot about people like Clark Gable and Charles Laughton," said Miller. "And Rita Hay worth...