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PATRONAGE. Over objections from three dissenters that the "timehonored" practice has served to strengthen "robust political discourse," five Justices struck a serious blow at the remnants of the patronage system. The decision came on a case in Chicago where the Daley machine has become one of the nation's foremost practitioners of rewarding political loyalists with public jobs. About 1,000 Republicans working in the Cook County sheriffs office had been routinely turned out after a Democrat was elected in 1970. The court conceded that such firings may be necessary for policymaking officials, but in the words of Justice...
...shade from the intense noonday sun. A psychedelic rock band with gigantic amplifiers competed with ranchero singers, backed by trumpets and violins, across the square. As the din crescendoed, railway workers forming a canyon through the crowd swung their matracas (rattles) wildly. With hand stretched high in salute, a robust man in a white guayabera (tropical shirt) jogged up to the speaker's platform. The crowd broke into a roar: " Viva Lopez Portillo...
...been busy at home enforcing harsh measures to justify the state of emergency she declared last June. That she felt free enough now to make her trip to Moscow, her first overseas journey since the emergency began, is an indication that India is in many respects in surprisingly robust economic health. Thanks to a record wheat harvest of 114 million tons last year-which in turn was produced by the most beneficent monsoon in modern history-the country is enjoying a period of rare prosperity. As a result of a two-year-old tight-money policy and a very tough...
Died. Elisabeth Rethberg, 81, top Metropolitan Opera soprano for two decades; in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Blonde, blue-eyed and almost fearsomely robust, German-born Rethberg tried out at the Met in 1922 and stayed for 20 years, drawing raves with a clear, effortlessly powerful voice that made her a standout in an era of great Met sopranos, including Kirsten Flagstad and Lotte Lehmann. She also brought a lively offstage presence to U.S. opera-once, during a tour with Met Basso Ezio Pinza, she collected not only bouquets but also a $250,000 suit from Pinza's wife charging alienation...
...Teyte, 88, petite red-haired English soprano who excelled in French art songs and opera; in London. In 1908 Claude Debussy coached her for her title role in his Pelleas and Melisande, which she was still singing at the age of 60. Her clear, controlled voice was not considered robust enough for the Metropolitan Opera, but she sang in smaller houses in the U.S., and her recordings of turn-of-the-century French songs by Debussy, Berlioz, Ravel and Faure are still rare collectors' items...