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...Angeles-born Henry Lew is became the first Negro musician to play regularly with a major U.S. orchestra, joining the double-bass section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His real ambition, though, was to swap his bow for a baton. He got conducting experience in the military with the Seventh Army Symphony, and later organized the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1961, he substituted for Igor Markevitch with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and within a few years he ranked as the outstanding Negro conductor in the U.S., though he had no orchestra...
...help stabilize the price of the metal within a few cents of its official U.S. price: $35 per oz. For 33 years that fixed price has been the cornerstone of the free world's international monetary arrangements. The U.S. is pledged to swap gold for dollars, at that price, to any foreign government that demands it. The dollar's standing as the world's chief reserve currency rests on that unique commitment, which makes the dollar as good as gold. But the commitment also means that any rise in the price of gold above...
...Japanese violinists among its ranks. West Berlin's Radio Orchestra has a Japanese concertmaster, as do both the Oklahoma City Symphony and the Quebec Symphony. The Boston Symphony and the Japan Philharmonic are in the second year of an exchange agreement whereby two string players from each orchestra swap places for a season. And the promising youngsters keep coming: co-winner of this year's prestigious Leventritt Award was Korean Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and second spot in the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow went to Japanese Violinist Masuko Ushioda...
Liberty deteriorating into license has become a contemporary abuse in several arts. In Michael McClure's The Beard, which opened at a Greenwich Village theater last week, two characters made up as Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid swap repetitive obscenities for 60 minutes. To what end? If The Beard means to scandalize, it fails: its words are now numbingly familiar onstage. If it means to extol freedom of speech, it falters: its four-letter words express so little that they produce constraint of speech...
...further broadened its diversified operations (auto parts, mining, chemicals) by acquiring Paramount Pictures last year, moved into consumer products for the first time by reaching an agreement to buy out Consolidated Cigar, the nation's biggest cigar maker (Dutch Masters, El Producto, Muriel), in a $150 million stock swap. At the same time, Gulf & Western's young (40), acquisitive chairman, Charles Bluhdorn, sweetened his company's stock offer for E.W. Bliss Co., an Ohio-based tool-equipment manufacturer that, like Consolidated, had 1966 sales of about $158 million. If the Bliss deal goes through on the heels...