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Eddle "Lockjaw" Davis. Davis was born to play the tenor sax, it seems. Eight months after he bought his first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz...
Prime Battle. In foreign affairs, Administration head counters detected so much congressional opposition to a Ford proposal to sell Hawk ground-to-air missiles to Jordan that the White House prudently withdrew the plan. The House overwhelmingly approved a $31.1 billion appropriation for military weapons, including such controversial Administration projects as the B-1 bomber and a nuclear strike cruiser, but the Senate refused to agree; a joint conference committee will reconsider the issue in September...
...final blow to the Socialists was the M.F.A.'s endorsement last month of a scheme to establish local revolutionary councils that would bypass the political parties (TIME, July 21). "We have not left even Albania on our right!" exclaimed a shocked moderate, with a dose of hyperbole. Scares withdrew his party from the Cabinet and called for a series of nationwide rallies. There too he failed; instead of forcing the M.F.A. to broaden its political base, his challenge triggered the creation of the Directory. With it, the exclusion of moderates from the government is complete...
...consortium's board, wrote to officials at Riyadh University, asking permission to visit. Smuckler, who is Jewish, did not get answers to his letters to the Saudis, and there was no response to his visa application through the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. At that point Michigan State withdrew from the Riyadh project...
...Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have their own group, Employees for Better Working Conditions, designated as the paper's sole bargaining unit. An NLRB election last month was Abruptly canceled when the Guild withdrew from the running. Says Guild Spokesman Dick Pattison: "It didn't make much sense for us to be on the ballot when the only ones voting would be the strikebreakers...