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...Bullhead City, Ariz. (pop. 15,000), his town is now officially hotter than ever before. Baudouine, a fireman, is no sorcerer: for four years he has been in charge of reporting daily weather statistics to the National Weather Service for his stretch of western Arizona desert. Last April a stickler from the Weather Service told him to move his thermometer from the firehouse's comparatively cool, sprinklered front lawn to more "natural terrain." Baudouine picked a dusty patch 100 yards away, and the high temperatures in Bullhead City were promptly four or five degrees higher. On eight days last...
...friend Richard Strauss; of a stroke; in Salzburg, Austria. Despite the international scope of his appearances and recordings, Bohm remained most closely associated with three great native institutions: the Vienna State Opera (at which he served two stints as director), the Salzburg Music Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic. A stickler for detail who shunned showmanship for clarity and fidelity to the score, he once said: "I bring to conducting my own enthusiasm for the music-and then there are things I know that perhaps others...
DIED. Ivan Galamian, 78, internationally renowned teacher of violin who in 35 years at the Juilliard School of Music taught many of today's leading violinists, including Itzhak Permian, Pinchas Zuckerman, Kyung-wha Chung, James Buswell and Jaime Laredo; of a heart attack; in New York City. A stickler for technical detail who nevertheless encouraged each student to develop his own stylistic individuality, Galamian once said that he urged his charges "to study for the love of music, not with the hope of glory. People can get tired of glory, but not of something they love...
Leverett House: Things should get easier at the tail end of a matching test, but this is a real stickler. Leverett House resident and soccer captain Michael Smith (Leicester, England) might be able to figure it out, though, because leverett is a British word for a rabbit. Rabbits, Bunnies, they're all the same...
...least in the current honeymoon period, they could not have done better than to rally around General Evren, who is described by a Western military expert in Turkey as "a father figure to his soldiers, an honest man with strong common sense." A native Anatolian, he is a stickler for rank and tradition; newsmen thought it was probably symbolic that they were carefully instructed to wear jackets and ties to his press conference last week. During the search for a new President over the past five months, Evren was suggested as a candidate but he turned down the idea, saying...