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Reilly, the former assistant Middlesex DA, will succeed L. Scott Harshbarger '64, who defeated James G. Shannon in the democratic primary for attorney general...
...races for prosecutor, Ronald Pina, the Bristol County DA whose office is investigating the murders of several young women whose bodies were found along area highways, was defeated by Paul F. Walsh Jr. in the Democratic primary...
...sentence or two to the notebook, already largely filled. To a visitor the pages look vaguely familiar. Then realization dawns. The black-inked notations and tidy sketches of winged and wheeled vehicles, streamlined contours and odd mechanisms are startlingly reminiscent of the famous illustrated notes penned by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries...
Self-effacing and at 64 still somewhat shy, MacCready would cringe at any comparison with the original Renaissance man. Yet he has created what Da Vinci dreamed of and designed, but literally never got off the ground -- flying machines propelled solely by human muscle power. These and other unique MacCready airborne contraptions have made aviation history, and his innovative electric-car designs could help usher in a new era in ground transportation...
...Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne; and a clarinet concerto for Stanley Drucker and the New York Philharmonic...