Word: stuart
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...also bade farewell last week. He wants to run for the House as a Democrat in Missouri's traditionally Republican Second District. It might be an uphill fight, but he knows a few things about Missouri politics, having twice helped run successful campaigns for his father, Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's replacement at State will be U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, who held the protocol post for four years before going to Madrid...
...Promethean imperiousness of a six-year-old, is from More Children's Letters to God (Simon & Schuster), the second of two phenomenally successful compilations of juvenile missives addressed to the deity. Compiled by a pair of veteran writers of children's books, Eric Marshall and Stuart Hample, Children's Letters to God was published last year, has so far sold 340,000 copies. More Letters, only eleven weeks in print, has already reached the 150,000 mark. Marshall and Hample gathered the letters from friends, hospitals, orphanages, camps and Sunday schools across the nation. Children under...
...industry's return on its invested capital has now fallen from the 11% ceiling set by the Civil Aeronautics Board to about 10%, and some analysts expect it to dip lower. That, of course, could complicate its future borrowing. "We are in no current crisis," says President Stuart Tipton of the Air Transport Association, "but all of us have got to pay major attention to our problems...
Threatening Traps. "After you've been in the business a few years," explains Chad Stuart, who is now working on an "oratorio" to be called The Election, "you get cured of the lust for money and you want to produce something-well, heavy." Other experimental rock composers seem motivated more by a restlessness to burst out of conventional molds. San Francisco's Steve Miller, who is writing a suite that will combine Stockhausen-influenced elec tronic music with rhythm-and-blues, says simply: "I don't dig three-minute sections." Classical and Jazz Composer Bill Russo, director...
...which he hopes to hear performed in Chicago coffeehouses and clubs, thinks that one solution lies in underplaying the formal aspects. "I think it is just as well if the public does not know my pieces are cantatas," he says. "I for one do not intend to tell them." Stuart believes another built-in guard against obscurity is the plain fact that "there just aren't enough people in the business who can do this sort of thing...