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...Detroit has a world-class orchestra that is supported in a provincial way," huffed Detroit Symphony Orchestra Conductor Antal Dorati in an open letter to Orchestra Chairman Robert B. Semple. Therefore, said the maestro with characteristic bravado, I quit. Under Dorati, who arrived three years ago, the D.S.O. has become one of the crown jewels of the struggling "Detroit renaissance." So Semple acted fast. In a six-way conference call with Dorati at his home in Switzerland, board members urged the maestro to come back, at least for this season. Pleased with the furor he had created, Dorati agreed...
...lineup. The searing heat in Birmingham (105° on the field) was one reason; an offense that had but two starting players return was another. While Bryant waits for his offense to gel, he has come up with a few surprises. Split End James Mallard, a world-class track man until a few weeks ago (in 1979 Mallard ran the world's second fastest 200 meters), played the first football game of his life against Georgia Tech. He caught the first pass ever thrown to him and, naturally, outran Tech's defenders for a touchdown...
...absence of so many world-class athletes made for a pleasing unpredictability in Moscow. A judo competitor from the tiny Republic of San Marino (pop. 20,000) admitted: "It isn't the same without the Japanese. Even I have a chance here now." At the same time, the Games produced three dozen world records, the same number as in 1976, and some moments of high drama...
...transition from a good runner to a world-class runner came at the AIAW Championships in Eugene...
...lunch-bucket town with a world-class symphony. A heavily black city with a black-run government, but an economy dependent on white business leaders. A community that prides itself on its race relations, yet a town where the underlying tensions could still cause another riot. And it's a Democratic town holding the Republican National Convention...