Word: rolander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crucial Audition. Former Goodman students now occupy most of the major first-chair percussion spots in the U.S. One of them, Roland Kohloff of the San Francisco Symphony, is succeeding Goodman at the Philharmonic. So motherly is Goodman about watching out for his big drum-beating family that he once had Buster Bailey audition for the St. Louis Symphony in place of another candidate, Bob Matson, also a Goodman student, who happened to be out of town. Apparently on the theory that one Goodman product is as good as another, Matson...
...meticulous were their preparations. they sent an inspection team to study the tortuous kayak and canoeing course built near Munich, then had it reproduced for training in Saxony on the Pleisse River. They were rewarded with two gold medals. One more gold medal went to World Champion Backstroker Roland Matthes in the 100-meter event, a repeat of his performance in Mexico City. By week's end the East Germans had collected an impressive total of eight gold, six silver and nine bronze medals...
...sports-crazed East Germany, where top athletes receive cash bonuses (especially when they beat West Germans), there is no greater hero these days than Roland Matthes, 21. He took two Olympic gold medals at Mexico and could pick up as many as five more at Munich, depending on how many events he enters. Lean, lithe Matthes is as sure as any Olympic competitor of winning his specialties-the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, in which he has been the world record holder for the past four years. Like Shane Gould, Matthes has a distinctive kick; almost twice...
There is a "World Progress Report" that features only good news, such as the intelligence that the U.N.'s new "disaster relief coordinator" has begun to attempt to coordinate relief. From International Editor Roland Gelatt (based in London) comes a detailed analysis of what will happen to London's Covent Garden Market when the area undergoes urban renewal 18 months hence...
...difficulty of the role is what might have lured most actors. But Trintignant agreed to make the film first because the director is Jacques Deray, who made Borsalino. "An interesting director will make an interesting film," Trintignant explained to TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini (in French). "An actor is at best his inspired assistant. Second, there's the story. And only after that do I consider the part." His wife Nadine, a French director who has made two Trintignant pictures, says: "Once he has made a commitment to a director, he never questions him-and , that includes me. At home...