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DIED. Carlos Chavez, 79, foremost Mexican composer and conductor; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City, Chavez began by writing folk-tinged compositions (the ballet HP in 1926) and gradually embraced romanticism (Sinfoma Romantica...
...hopes the investigation will enable them to make a case against Accardo. Despite his age (72) and a heart ailment, Accardo, a former bodyguard for Al Capone, heads the ruling Chicago crime triumvirate, which also includes Jackie ("the Lackey") Cerone and Joe ("Doves") Aiuppa...
...agency provides funds, advice and regulations for birth, infancy, upbringing, schooling and old age, for the sick and disabled, the handicapped and the gifted, the divorced and the depressed, the sex discriminator and the sex offender, for those who are pregnant and those who are sterile. Whatever the ailment or anxiety, the department will have some remedy among its 400 programs, a range of activities that increases so fast not even HEW'S own top administrators can keep up with them...
This legislative preoccupation with the trivial, which is confirmed in almost every state capital, goes by the term microphilia. Though the ailment was named only a few years ago (by a justly obscure political diagnostician), it has been in evidence as long as state legislatures have existed-though sometimes upstaged by more dramatic defects such as procrastination, carelessness and venality. These larger historic faults were undoubtedly in the mind of John Burns when he wrote in The Sometime Governments (1970): "We expect very little of our legislatures, and they continually live up to our expectations." In fact, many state legislatures...
...wife Zelda, who hated Hemingway. He. in return, contended that she had ruined her husband's talent with her jealousy. Writing to Editor Perkins in 1933. Hemingway was of the callous opinion that Fitzgerald's salvation lay in Zelda's death or a stomach ailment that would prevent his drinking...