Word: southeasterners
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Marriage settled Rubinstein in more ways than one. Up to then, he had got by on sheer talent. But after the birth of his first child in 1933, he took up the piano in earnest; for three months, he practiced diligently at a remote mountain cottage in southeastern France. "I didn't want people telling my child after I died, 'What a pianist your father might have been,' " he explained. He emerged from his battle a master of the keyboard; at age 47, his real career was about to begin...
...Figueiredo's military backers, an even more alarming outcome loomed in the major southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro. There, a front runner in the gubernatorial race was Leonel Brizola, 62, a charismatic populist and onetime left-wing orator who was governor of Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul at the time of the 1964 military coup. Brizola, who used to extol the virtues of Fidel Castro, has been cited by military men as one of the reasons that they seized power in the first place. At week's end Brizola was leading...
...thing they do have is computers. A pair of Apple II Plus micros was delivered to the high school two years ago, gifts of the Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering, a group of 22 colleges and universities that helps predominantly black high schools. This fall, impressed with what the new machines were doing for their students, county officials sprang for six more. "If we hadn't gotten the first two for free," says Superintendent M.E. Lewis, "we wouldn't have...
...perennially promising young man of American letters is 50 and enjoying a very good year indeed. Spring kept him busy accepting awards. Rabbit Is Rich, his third look at an aging ex-jock in southeastern Pennsylvania, is now being issued in paperback after winning the literary Triple Crown: the Pulitzer Prize ("Critics have called the book a fulfillment of Updike's fabulous promise"), an American Book Award ("Let us celebrate the prestidigitator who tells today with passion and warning, and tricks it into language's jubilee") and a commendatory scroll from the National Book Critics Circle ("The novel...
Pontiac, which has a $55 million stadium and a 28.2% unemployment rate, is more depressed than ever. "It will probably mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars," says Earl Kreps of the Chamber of Commerce, "not just in Pontiac but all of southeastern Michigan." The city-owned Silverdome will lose $275,000 for every missed game. The city of Miami had the foresight to purchase a $300,000 strike-insurance policy in July (premiums: $12,000). That should about cover a season's losses in parking fees and concession sales. In San Francisco, Mayor Dianne Feinstein said...