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Switched-on Bach, the burbling and tootling re-creations of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and other works on the Moog synthesizer, has become the best-selling "classical" record of all time (3 million copies sold worldwide to date). None of the subsequent sons of SOB (The Well-Tempered Synthesizer...
The private train was slowly chugging across Nevada one day last week on the final stretch of a six-hour trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The 150 passengers, guests of West Coast Mobster "Big Jim" Valenti, had lunched on a buffet of "selected Sicilian meat and cheese cuts...
Alert the Army! Berserk with anger, Big Daddy declared that Hills would be shot on July 4, unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan visits Uganda in the meantime. Trembling, Amin shouted to his defense council, "Alert the army! Alert the air force! Call Libya [an ally whose leader, Colonel Muammar...
Meanwhile, Narain, a maverick, quick-tempered member of the upper house who has been in jail for some protest or other at least once a year since 1947, and who has frequently had to be bodily carried out of legislative sessions for refusing to obey the speaker's rules...
The daughter of a physicist, a Bryn Mawr alumna and a Radcliffe Ph.D. in economics, Rivlin, 44, is the wife of a Washington lawyer and the mother of three children-whose tasks have been lightened by housekeepers throughout her career. She became interested in economics during a summer course at...