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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Mo.) Edward K. ("Duke") Ellington, D.MUS., composer, bandleader. Sol M. Linowitz, LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, former chairman of the executive committee, Xerox Corp. James A. Michener, D.LET., novelist. Vivid chronicler of war and peace, of brave savages and flinty purveyors of civilization...
Eight years is a long time for a man to spend in a state lockup, especially when the Federal Government has already got him for 15. So when Texas socked Billie Sol Estes in 1962 with eight extra years for his cunning way with nonexistent fertilizer tanks, Billie took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, won a retrial on the ground that TV cameras in the courtroom had prejudiced the trial. Last week, tanned and trimmer by 50 Ibs. after two years in federal prisons at Leavenworth and Sandstone, Minn., Billie Sol, 42, returned to the dusty courthouse...
...late spring, it is back to Paris briefly, then down to a rented villa on the Riviera or, of recent years, to a bungalow at Marbella on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Autumn used to be reserved for hunting weekends, but since an eye operation in 1965, the duke no longer shoots. The duke and duchess give and go to small dinner parties with such friends as the Eugene de Rothschilds, sometimes attend the theater or ballet on gala occasions. Each December they slip into London, where they stay at Claridge's, for Christmas shopping, returning to Paris...
...overwhelms the viewer. Outdoors, it takes on what Curator Tuchman, 30, calls "a heroic quality." Besides, it gets the benefits of the California sunshine, which Tuchman, who is a recent migrant from New York, describes rhapsodically as "more diffuse, more intense, with a pervasive glare, a kind of luminescence." Sol Lewitt's white jungle gym, for instance, gains a thousand chunky highlights from the sun. The California show also clearly demonstrates that the new cool geometry, which is often combined with bright color or gleaming industrial surfaces, is a truly nationwide movement. And the West Coast is at least...
...glare, which took in the whole orchestra but made each player feel that it was focused on him-usually in reproach. And then there were the tantrums. When a piece was not played as Toscanini wanted it, "his irritation used to start at his feet and rise," recalls Bassoonist Sol Schoen-bach. "By the time it reached his mouth, it was like a volcano erupting." Toscanini cursed, kicked over music stands, broke or bit into his batons, jammed his hands into his jacket so hard that the pockets ripped...