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...Oval Office, then sat at his large desk, with his visitors ranged in front of it. "He was anxious to put us at ease," said Scott later, "because I'm sure he knew we weren't." Nixon reminisced about the Eisenhower years, and all chatted as the trio waited for him to broach the momentous topic. "What I need to do," Nixon finally began, "is to get your appraisal of the floor. I have a decision to make. I've got maybe 15 in the Senate and ten in the House...
...microphone, close his eyes and raise up a musical inferno. One of the first of the '60s superstars, Eric Clapton was a charter member of rock's inner circle-along with Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound. By 1970 Clapton was considered to be the world's top rock guitarist, had sold some $12 million worth of records. Then he stopped performing...
...Smith goes way back--he got his start playing organ in the bop era, and is now arguably the best jazz organist around and certainly one of the most durable. His "Hootchie-Cootchie Man" and "Got My Mojo Working" are classics. Smith usually plays in an organ-guitar-drums trio, but the personnel varies. Along with Watson, this sounds like the week's best music bet. July 1 through 7, call 267-1300 for times here and at Paul's Mall...
...eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New York boardwalk, but together with Lyricist Jacob Jacobs sold the copyright five years later for $30. Soon picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda had won distinction as an orchestra leader and a composer of Jewish liturgical melodies and dozens of Yiddish musicals...
...patients who had been adopted tended to have special identity problems. Enlisting the help of Social Workers Reuben Pannor and Annette Baran of the Vista Del Mar Child-Care Service, Sorosky solicited opinions on the open-records question from adoptees, as well as from natural and adoptive parents. The trio received 600 letters, many of which they followed up with interviews. The response of the natural parents was often passionate. Wrote one mother: "No cross given us on this earth is worse than not knowing what your baby is like." Reaction of those few adoptees who have managed to find...