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...priceless cello bow, belonging to Soviet cellist Mstislav Rostropivich, was stolen Sunday at the musician's open rehearsal at Sanders Theatre. The bow, made out of tortoise shell with gold trim, was a gift from Gregor Piatagorsky, another world-famous cellist. Inscribed on it are "sartory" and "made especially for Mr.Piatagorsky...
...paradigm of the professional military man- dark hair fringed with grey, jaw square and trim, brown eyes alert under thick brown brows. His tunic was ablaze with the trophies of three wars - six tiers of campaign ribbons and medals from battles in North Africa and Sicily, France and Germany, Korea and Viet Nam, as well as the silver emblem of the master parachutist and the combat infantryman's badge...
...rudder set on the keel, she has two-a main steering rudder set well aft on a long stabilizing skeg, plus a narrow "tab rudder" mounted on the unusually short keel. Controlled with its own wheel in the helmsman's cockpit, the tab will perform something like the trim tabs on aircraft ailerons, which balance planes for level, effortless flight. When beating to windward, the tab should offset the boat's natural tendency to round up into the wind. On reaches and spinnaker runs, the two rudders can be linked together for maximum steering control...
...Nancy, in fact, is lately being given the kind of celebrity treatment usually accorded her father. In Viet Nam, where she recently toured, 37 outfits generously named her their No. 1 pinup girl. She is currently negotiating a contract with the Pontiac people, who think that her trim chassis is just the right image for their new line of low-slung chariots. Even Daddy is getting into the act: his duet with Nancy on a single called Somethin' Stupid was No. 1 on the bestseller charts last week...
Last week Eddie Gilbert, still trim at 43, entered a courtroom in New York for sentencing on federal charges arising from his 1962 malefaction. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Armstrong praised Gilbert, who had pleaded guilty to three counts of his indictment, for having "cooperated with the Government and the SEC." His own attorney described him as "thoroughly contrite." While the defendant stood numbly, Judge Edmund L. Palmieri pronounced sentence: a $21,000 fine, two years in prison. Having also pleaded guilty to state larceny charges, Gilbert next faces sentencing in New York State Supreme Court, where he could...