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Died. Howard Lebow, 32, U.S. concert pianist; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Amherst, Mass. One of the youngest and most promising of U.S. pianists, Lebow toured 15 countries after his 1963 Manhattan solo debut, played the works of such modern composers as Edward Levy and Erich Kahn with an adventurousness that sometimes startled the critics but more often won their applause...
Jewel-Box Glitch. Tycho's significance lies in the fact that it is one of the moon's youngest and major craters. From its 15,000-foot depths, a pattern of grooves or ridges spokes out over hundreds of miles of the moon's pock-marked surface. The scientists hoped to compare the composition of this terrain with that of the low-lying basically basaltic equatorial "seas," studied by earlier Surveyors. Since Tycho is believed to have been formed by the impact of a giant meteorite, and by the intense volcanic activity that followed, a look...
...redoubts of European music. He became one of the youngest men ever to conduct both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras. He electrified the august Salzburg Festival with stirring performances of Stravinsky and Brahms. At 24, he was named conductor of the Montreal Symphony, and a year later won the same post with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, thus becoming not only the youngest conductor of a leading U.S. orchestra but also the only man ever to direct two major orchestras in North America at once. In fact, he conducted the two groups simultaneously: at Expo 67, he led them...
...least enviable jobs in Washington this winter is held by the youngest member of President Johnson's cabinet: Commerce Secretary Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 37. On him falls the burden of enforcing the first mandatory controls on private investment abroad, restrictions that constitute the largest element of Johnson's program to cut the U.S. balance of payments deficit by $3 billion this year...
...backwater, Trowbridge worked skillfully to bolster sagging department morale, pleased the White House with his loyalty in promoting Administration policies and his ability to keep his mouth shut about Commerce's many vacancies in top jobs. His reward was not only appointment last May as full-fledged Secretary-youngest in the department's history-but also a rising role in such Administration efforts as attracting business interest in slum problems, trying to end the long copper strike (which has caused an increase in imports of the metal), patching up L.B.J.'s tattered ties with big business...