Woman dies hours after meeting Obama at diner on bus tour

Pittsburgh - The 70-year-old restaurant owner in Akron, Ohio, died hours after his meeting with President Obama, when he stopped for breakfast on Friday morning, according to a published report.

Josephine "Ann" Harris, owner of the cafe square Ann, died of a heart attack at 11:18 after suffering from fatigue and was taken to an emergency room closest to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Obama arrived at the restaurant at 8:06 in the morning, and went to 08:42, according to a report of group printing.

Harris, described as sick, had embraced the reports of Obama in the parking lot after leaving a plate of bacon and eggs at the beginning of the second day bus trip through Ohio and President of Pennsylvania.

Obama has called the daughter of Harris, Wilma Parsons, the Air Force One on his way to Pittsburgh, where he finished the tour bus in Washington, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

"The president has expressed his sympathy and condolences," Carney told reporters traveling by plane.

"Very sad event, he was honored to meet with her this morning and sent to his feelings all the family in their thoughts and prayers are today."

The Beacon Journal reported that Harris adored Obama, citing as his sister Frankie Adkins said Friday that the meeting was "a highlight."

The president was using the two-day bus tour to connect with voters in key states. He made several impromptu stops along the way to interact with ordinary Americans, providing many photo opportunities for local and national media documenting the journey.

Obama had breakfast instead of Ann, with three employees of a facility near Goodyear, according to the Obama campaign. The White House press pool report described Obama as if he approaches a table of men wearing baseball caps and joking, "This is a section name of the troublemakers."


Body nod to the press, the president added: "Do not do anything wrong, but these guys have the cameras were put up.".

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Champion of Fine Cheese Daphne Zepos Dies at 52

Daphne Zepos, internationally recognized authority in the cheese, the experience includes buy it, sell it, which is especially the almost transcendental experience of eating it, died Tuesday at home in San Francisco. He was 52 years.

The cause was lung cancer, her husband, Brad Brown said.

A writer, lecturer, consultant, importer, and the judge of cheese chef competition, Mrs. Zepos was, like the New York Times wrote in 2005 ", one of the most authoritative voices in the field of American cheese." (In this recognition, "American cheese" is not mentioned in American cheese.)

From 2002 to 2005, Ms. Zepos was associated with the center of artisanal cheese, a vast complex of Brennan Terrace restaurant in Manhattan, where the old cheese before being sent to consumers, stores and restaurants.

In 2006, he helped found the Essex Street Cheese Company. Headquartered in New York, imports and wholesalers, a small number of cheeses of Europe.

The main one is Earl, a cousin of French Gruyere, as Mrs. Zepos enthusiastically told the newspaper San Francisco Chronicle in 2006, it triggers "tsunami wave of burning" in the mouth "and let the incredible flavor of the cream and butter in language. "

Ms. Zepos to talk even more poetic. In the description of sensory pleasures of cheese in particular, her husband said Thursday, could have invoked Homer, Mark Rothko, the soul music of Stax / Volt Records, and the pianist Glenn Gould in a single breath happy.

Last year, Mrs. Zepos became owner of the Cheese School of San Francisco, the country's only independent institution of learning dedicated to cheese.

Ms. Zepos work - as well as his writings on the cheese for the website of The Atlantic magazine and elsewhere - has helped lead the current interest in artisanal cheese consumers in the United States.

"Twenty years ago, the image of cheese, as opposed to a very small percentage of Americans who had traveled much, was actually a cheese of the mass market," Ari Weinzweig, founder and CEO of Zingerman, the concern gourmet foods Ann Arbor, Michigan, said on Thursday. "Today, thanks to the leadership of Daphne and education and training, a much larger portion of the American people understand what is the traditional cheese, and it can be."

Ms. Zepos was the anthropologist as an ambassador, for his journeys in search of a good cheese brought to the farms and pastures of small producers throughout Europe and the United States.

The best of his work, used to say, was imbued with the flavor of the mountains and meadows and the life stories of the cheese makers themselves, or so it seemed.

"I wanted people to support small producers of cheese and understand all the work and love that went into it," said Corby Kummer, senior editor of The Atlantic and a writer on food, Thursday . "He said that people can appreciate the full range of aromas and flavors and how to see and feel the cheese -. Literally Toca'l, who cracks, understanding the structure"

In perhaps his most important role, Mrs. Zepos was gerontòleg cheese. More precisely, it was a refiner, as someone who oversees the aging of the cheese its peak exquisite, carefully calibrated known.

The profession that combines the skills of the artist, chemistry and the nanny, is one in which only a few dozen people in the United States can boast.

It was this work that requires Zepos Mrs. Craft, who chairs the center of five caves, "walk-in refrigerators with tightly controlled temperature and humidity there, the cheese in moderation and with exquisite tenderness -. Years old, transformed sometimes it was washed in wine or beer - before it is considered mature enough to use.

Daphne Zepos was born in Athens July 13, 1959, Costa and Greta Zepos. His father was a Greek diplomat, and was raised in Athens, London, Geneva and Brussels. He studied Medieval History at the University of Kent, England, and architecture at the Architectural Association, a trade school in London.

In 1987, his father became the Greek ambassador to the United Nations, and Mrs. Zepos moved with his family in the U.S.

He studied at the New York School Peter Kump Cooking (now the Institute of Culinary Education), and later worked at Campton Place Hotel in San Francisco, where his responsibilities included assembling the basket buy cheeses and push through the lunch room.

Ms. Zepos first time marriage ended in divorce, she married Mr. Brown, an artist in 1994. He survives, along with his parents and a sister, Amalia Zepou.

To travel with Mrs. Zepos on an isolated farm in the mountains, to attend one of their classes or even start a casual conversation state, his colleagues said to be overwhelming in the presence of an evangelist.

"It has never been so indifferent," said Kummer. "He loved what he did. He liked the people who made the cheese. He loved to see the light in your eyes when you put a piece of cheese in his mouth."

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Marijuana Opponent Dr. Gabriel G. Nahas Dies at 92

Dr. Gabriel G. Nahais, a controversial medical researcher who became leader of the crusaders against marijuana after being surprised to hear, at a meeting of the PTA in 1969, in the diffusion of the drug, died June 28 in Manhattan. He was 92 years.

The cause was a respiratory infection, his family said.

Dr. Nahaix conducted an investigation to find the physiological effects of smoking marijuana, has written 10 books on drugs and became one of the leaders of drug organizations. It was seen as an ally of Nancy Reagan in her "say no" to drugs campaign, as the first lady in 1980.

Dr. Naharro has seen his campaign against drugs nothing less than a continuation of the struggle against totalitarianism, which began during World War II as a French resistance leader decoration, such as totalitarianism, he argues, drugs of slave mind.

It was awarded the French Legion of Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States and the Order of the British Empire for his wartime heroism.

His research, which he did as a professor at Columbia University and reported in more than 700 articles in scientific journals, has suggested that marijuana has contributed to the head and neck cancers, leukemia, sterility, brain damage and a weakened immune system.

He has also written two books about cocaine, which he said could cause irreversible damage to the brain.

Dr. Nahaix was known both for his defense than his science. He was president of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth, and the National Association of Family.

He was consultant to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs of 1980 and '90. In 1985, he appeared in an event against drugs with Mrs. Reagan and the actor William Shatner, who was in costume as his most famous character, Captain Kirk of "Star Trek." Dr. Nahaix often testified in hearings of the Government.

His critics within the scientific community, sometimes attacked their methodology, questioned the large judgments are often made based on the sample size. Organizations that promote the decriminalization or legalization of marijuana is presented as a villain.

The New England Journal of Medicine, once described his work as "psychopharmacological mccarthysme which forces to use half-truths, innuendo and statements not verifiable."

However, Robert L. DuPont, the drug czar in the Nixon and Ford administrations, Dr. Nahaix called "the Paul Revere of the drug," saying. "He just lit the beacon warning of the ongoing threat of epidemic abuse drugs "

Georges Nahaix Gabriel was born in Alexandria, Egypt, March 4, 1920, the son of a Lebanese father and French mother. When I was little, she asked her family about people passing on the street who seemed drunk or lethargic and said they were addicted to hashish.

He was a medical student at the University of Toulouse during the Second World War when the Germans occupied France has found anti-Nazi leaflets in his room.

It was brutally beaten and imprisoned, but refused to speak. He joined the Resistance against the Nazis and helped transport some 200 Allied airmen shot down by security.

After the war, he traveled to the United States by the broader scientific education and graduated from the University of Rochester in New York and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He completed a doctorate in physiology from the University of Minnesota cardiopulmonary.

Conservatism Dr. Nahaix extended beyond narcotics. In 1970 marshaled his public persona has recently signed with ads in newspapers that criticize opponents of the Vietnam War.

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Black Woman Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly dies at 92

Leontine T.C. Kelly, a daughter and wife of ministers who followed his calling and became the first black bishop in the woman a major Christian denomination, when the United Methodist Church raised its position in 1984, has died. He was 92 years.

Kelly, who oversaw the Northern California and Nevada for the 1984-1988 church, while based in San Francisco, died on June 28 announced the name. She had been in poor health for some time, living in a nursing home in Oakland.

When Kelly was appointed bishop at the age of 64 years, has become the second woman to hold this position at the United Methodist Church.

He also served as president of the legal designation of the Western bishops, assuming the duties of managing director and spiritual guide of the 100,000 members of his flock.

Kelly, who is regarded as a social activist and political leader and spiritual, has supported the inclusion of gays and lesbians in the church organization, ministry to AIDS patients and has ruled against nuclear weapons and armed conflict.

"All my life, my own political, social and spiritual are moved together," said Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2002. "I could not separate them."

I 'Leontine Turpeau was born March 5, 1920, in Washington, DC, the seventh of eight children, and as a child moved with his family in Cincinnati. His father, the Rev. David DeWitt Turpeau Sr., was a Methodist Episcopal minister and four times member of the Ohio Legislature.

His mother, Ila, was African-American activist who co-founded the Urban League in Cincinnati. The family lived in a parish house, which was a station on the Underground Railroad where slaves fleeing the South stopped to rest.

Kelly enrolled in what is now West Virginia State University but left school to marry Gloster Bryant Current, a director who has worked for the NAACP and as assistant pastor at the United Methodist Church. They had three children before divorcing.

In 1956 she married James David Kelly, who was an ordained Methodist minister. He moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he was pastor and studied at the University Virginia Union University, where he graduated with a degree in 1960.

He taught high school history and social studies, and trained to become a lay preacher in the church.

When her husband died in 1969, Kelly has asked his congregation to take office. She hesitated, but after deciding that he had a vocation to become a minister, returned to school and earned a master's in divinity from what was then the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond.

He was ordained deacon in 1972 and an elder in 1977, led a United Methodist Church in Richmond for six years.

In 1983, Kelly moved in the direction of the Church, the service staff of the national board of discipleship of the United Methodist Church in Nashville.

A year later he was elected bishop, after several rounds of voting. Replaced Marjorie S. Matthews, the first woman bishop of the denomination, which was removed.

When asked if Jesus wanted his disciples in 1989, Kelly had an answer ready.

"We recognize the type of culture in which Jesus and his disciples lived," he told USA Today. "" It was a very macho culture. However, Jesus has violated the customs of the culture in the sense that he spoke with the women share with women. The women were part of the circle of Jesus Christ. God calls you call God. "

After retiring as bishop in 1988, Kelly has continued to speak at conferences and has taught at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut.

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Martin L. Swig Dies at 78

When viewed today, rare cars, like Lancia Lambda 1925, 1941 or 1953 Tatra T87 1900 Coupe Pininfarina Alfa Romeo are generally fixed, delivered to the sample auto dealerships or inelegant trailers.

With the founding of the California Mille, an event known worldwide and manages classic sports cars of more than 1,000 kilometers of mountain roads of Northern California, Swiga Martin said that people see the cars that do what they should do: eat the hot asphalt.

Swiga Sr., who died Tuesday at age 78, he organized the first California Mille in 1991. The tour of the cars built in 1957 or before, lasting four days from the last Sunday in April, and for many twenty kilometers along the northern coast of California extraordinary view.

Around 75 vehicles around the world join the tour each year, each owner pays nearly $ 6,000 to enter.

Mr. Swiga, who also owned one of the first performances of several major automobile franchises in the United States, died in Greenbray, California, and lived in Sausalito. His son David said he had a stroke on Sunday.

The California Mille is based in the Italian Mille Miglia, an endurance race from Brescia to Rome and back that was from 1927 until 1957. Swiga and Mr. John Lamm of Road and Track magazine has participated in a revival of 1955, the 1982 Alfa Romeo Mille Swiga Mr. Zagat 1900. Then it was about 50 thousand events in Japan and Australia, Italy and California.

The Tour of California requires an exceptionally dedicated unit, said Swiga Sports Car Digest in 2011. "They have a car driving off and not just once a year," he said. "One has to be one with your car."

Many car collectors focus on one brand or model, but the collection of Mr. Swiga about 30 cars is eclectic. In addition to the rarity of the above, has had five different models of Alfa Romeo Giulietta, a pair of 510S and a Datsun Toyota Corona 1968 Hardtop two doors. His most recent was a 2013 Subaru BRZ.

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Breaker of Glass Ceilings Joyce D. Miller Dies at 84

Joyce D. Miller, an influential advocate of women who believed that equality for them in the workplace, can get better with the unions, who argued the case that broke in the male-dominated leadership of the AFL -CIO, who died on Saturday in Washington. He was 84 years.

The cause was a stroke, his son Joshua said.

Mrs. Miller was a supporter of women in the workplace for decades.

He was a founding member and later chairman of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, a national group that since 1974 has helped to organize women into unions.

In 1980, he became the first woman elected to the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

And in 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her executive director of the Committee on the glass ceiling created by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to study the obstacles to the advancement of women and minority employees against big business .

When he was elected to A.F.L.-C.I.O. board, had been in labor for about 20 years of management and used to working in a "sea of ??men," the AP said it would.

He was 52 years old and divorced with three children. A photograph from 1981 shows a wheel of his blue suit and pearls, smiling in the midst of 33 men dressed.

Miller has seen union membership, collective bargaining and labor contracts as the path to equality for working women, and believed that women should be part of the union of the administration ensure that attention was focus on issues of equal opportunities, equal pay, parental leave, child care, health insurance and discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace.

Presence was a tall, formidable, have a strong voice that has been good without a microphone (although he refused to talk to her first meeting of the AFL-CIO, said he did not want to appear as a " overbearing woman, "The 'AP report).

"Joyce has not hesitated to speak, to speak when he thought something was going in the wrong direction," said John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, and he added: "He was very focused on equity and justice."

In 1982, during a conference in Manhattan, the difficulty of women being admitted to the Union as skilled construction trades and plumbing, Mrs. Miller had predicted a "feminization of poverty".

"Employers say that no real woman wants to work with a frog," he said. "The real truth is that no woman wants to starve."

And for those who argued that women earn less than men because they tend to take less demanding jobs, have been answered.

"When men were secretaries, office work pays well, and rose high," he wrote in a letter to The New York Times in 1985. "When women are secretaries, have reached an impasse on low pay.

The same happened when women replaced men as operators of sewing machines, bank ATMs and telephone operators. The market seems to realize that workers in a workplace subject to a sex change. "

Joyce Danner was born in Chicago June 19, 1928. His mother was a teacher and his father owned a grocery store. She was raised "with a social conscience," he said in an oral history project in 2000.

He received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1950 and a masters in social sciences and education is not 1951.

Classes for the unemployed and seeded his ambition to be involved in the labor movement. But despite their education, labor union, that only she could find at first with an operator assistant, receptionist and switchboard - although he could not write shorthand or - at the Cooperative League of America, a group common ownership of companies.

Later, as a regional training director for a union in Pittsburgh, discovered that their employees have received food stamps, but that women were less than men, because they thought the men would take them to dinner and collect their checks.

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Top Boxing Contender Jimmy Bivins Dies at 92

Jimmy Bivins, a heavyweight boxer in the 1940s and 50s who broke eight world champions of the future, but despite his constant, never had a shot at the title, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Cleveland. He was 92 years.

A spokesman for the funeral chapel Luke Memorial Home in Garfield Heights, Ohio, confirmed the death.

If boxing is added to an assembly of cruelty and courage, fame and fear, Bivins was representative of life.

He realized the power of his punches from the start, and then saw the heights to which this was possible.

But bad luck, bad weather and maybe the bad guys who fought, and the end of his life was a shell of the warrior who had been overlooked.

From 1942 to 1946, Bivins crossed divisions and semipesado heavyweight, undefeated before losing to Jersey Joe Walcott in February 1946. Between 1940 and 1955, defeated a parade of fighters who would go on to become champions, including Gus Lesnevich, Joey Maxim, Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore.

Playing the bad and make the language of his opponents, Bivins became one of the major attractions of boxing, a rudimentary toletero, squat, with a left jab sting. At one point he was one of the main divisions of both heavy and light heavyweight. Joe Louis was one of many in the sport who have been perplexed that Bivins was not given a shot at the championship.

"I can not understand why most of what has been done," Luis said in an interview with The New York Times in 1948.

Bivins did not say much in time, but in 1999, speaking with The Cleveland Plain Dealer, citing a conversation with "the mafia of New York." The man said Bivins "must play ball with him," said Bivins. For him, the message was clear - you are willing to throw fights when he was told to do so.

"Well, I said that was not a baseball player, I'm a fighter," said Bivins.

For a man who had been the champion belt, Bivins, known as Spiderman Cleveland, has left a lasting impression. In 1997, Boxing Digest named him the No. 16 semipesado weight of all time, in 2002, Ring Magazine, the magazine ranked No. 6 in the same category. Is inserted into the Hall of Fame of the International boxing in 1999.

This facilitated their disappointment, but not erased. "The only thing is, I fought my heart and have no pay," he told The Plain Dealer in 1994. "Now, boys and two rounds to go out with a millionaire. Could not cancel my nose. This is the way the game is struggling."

Although Luis has fought 6 round exhibition match in 1948 and again in 10 rounds, the fight nonchampionship in 1951, he lived the rest of his life regretting not fight for the title. "All I wanted was a chance," said Bivins. "I deserved a chance."

Luis was in the army at this time. In 1944, Bivins, also enlisted in the army.

In February 1945, Bivins retired with honors and was struggling. One of his most memorable battles of the war was against Moore in August 1945. Moore knocked down six times en route to a victory by knockout. But began to lose more often.

Bivins retired in 1953, before returning to fight twice in 1955. His lifetime record was 86 wins, 25 defeats and one draw. Eliminates 31 opponents and was ousted five times.

In his retirement, Bivins drove trucks carrying baked goods, chips and crackers, and asked the young man in boxing. He made a tradition of cooking Sunday dinners for them, always ending with ice cream and cobbler's trade. His third wife, Isabel, died in 1995.

Bivins was lost from sight and was largely forgotten until 1998, when police found him living in the squalid attic of the house of his daughter, wrapped in a blanket soaked in urine.

His 110 pounds was covered with sores, and had cut a piece of his right middle finger trying to force a can of beans with a knife, resulting in a partial amputation later.

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Michael J. Ybarra dies at 45

Michael J. Ybarra, a former Times reporter who recently told his adventures in extreme sports for The Wall Street Journal, was killed in a climbing fall during the weekend at the edge of Yosemite National Park. Was 45.

An experienced climber, was left alone to cross the rocky crest of the Eastern Sierra and the summit of Matterhorn Peak Sawtooth 12.280 feet before falling to about 200 meters until he died, said his sister, Suzanne Ybarra.

His family reported his disappearance on Sunday, a rescue team and realized that his body on Tuesday in a rugged area of ??difficult access by foot, according to Kari Cobb, a park ranger. His body was found on a hillside, said his sister.

"He died doing what he loved most," he wrote in his Facebook page.

In a statement, the Wall Street Journal Ybarra called "an outstanding journalist. According to the best traditions of his profession has enlightened and engaged readers in a wide range of topics in a clear and lively prose."

Although their activities outdoors often are inherently dangerous, often made jokes about their fears and sometimes face in his writings. A piece he wrote in May last year for the Journal of whitewater kayaking with the title: "When death is only one stroke Away."

That same month, Ybarra, wrote about how "he straddled the edge of the knife between caution and confidence" before the fall frosts during the climb mountains near Bozeman, Montana.

"Climbing a mountain is a serious thing," he wrote in the Journal. "Mistakes have consequences - for you and your partner awake at night wondering if I wanted to go to a rock climbing gym or finding the most sensitive sports like table tennis" ..

About five years ago, in essence, Ybarra decided to live on the road and his car to follow her passion for adventure, said Bret Israel, Sunday Calendar editor of The Times, who met the writer When Ybarra interned in the Metro department of the end of 1980.

Ybarra was also the author of a biography noted, "Washington Gone Crazy", which arose from the report by The Times. The book tells the story of Pat McCarran, a former senator from Nevada who has exercised his power during the anticommunist hysteria of the 1950.

When time was called one of the best books of 2004, the reviewer pronounced "master," said Ybarra and "meticulously recounts McCarran rise to power" in creating "... an indispensable tool nuanced assessment" of a period in recent history.

The biography also was a finalist for the Times Book Prize 2005.

Michael Jay Ybarra was September 28, 1966, in Los Angeles to Eugene Ybarra, Los Angeles Unified School District administrator, and his wife Lillie, a social worker.

During his senior year at UCLA, political science major at times started practice in 1988 one year that included a stint with the Washington Office.

After earning a degree in political science from UC Berkeley in the 1990, Ybarra held various practices and spent four years working for The Wall Street Journal, but took advantage of the limitations of a full time job in a large organization.

As a freelance writer, Ybarra has contributed to numerous publications, including The Times, where he wrote about nature and art in the West for over two decades.

One of his recent articles in The Times about an exhibition in Venice, photo gallery of the Eastern Sierra, will be published on Sunday.

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The Rev. John E. Brooks Dies at 88

The Rev. John I. Brooks, the president with more seniority in the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and as a teacher in the days after the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. set out on a mission that led to the integration than it was all-male institution and almost all white, died Monday in Worcester. He was 88.

The cause was complications of lymphoma, said Ellen Ryder, a spokesman for the university.

On April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King was assassinated in 2200 less than a dozen students from Holy Cross were African Americans, most of them on athletic scholarships.

That month, the father of Brooks, professor of theology, he began to go up and down the East Coast in search of qualified students from high schools to recruit blacks in college, the Jesuits were founded in 1843.

Initially it was his own, paying their expenses. But support quickly followed when the Rev. Raymond J. Swords, president of the university when he learned of his research.

Among the 20 students this year were recruited Father Brooks Clarence Thomas, Judge of the future partner of the United States Supreme Court, Edward P. Jones, who won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Theodore Wells, who became a successful lawyer, Ed Jr. and Jenkins, wearing a Super Bowl ring, won as a player for the team undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins, before going on to become director of the civil rights of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

In an interview last month with The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, the father of Brooks asked if he had never imagined that so many students involved would become a success. "They have done marvelously well," he said. "I could not do better. Both were brilliant or lucky. I do not know why."

Two years after the start of his campaign integration, the father of Brooks 29 Santa Cruz became president, succeeding Father Swords. Within a year take place, he would keep for 24 years, the father of Brooks announced that the College would admit women. In the autumn of 1972, approximately 300 units of the student body.

Of the more than 2,800 students currently enrolled at Santa Cruz, more than half are women and nearly 25 percent are minority members.

"Even among the Jesuits, an order progressive, intellectual, and generally represent the church, John Brooks noted," wrote Diane Brady, BusinessWeek editor in chief of Bloomberg, the "Brotherhood", the account of their campaign integration, published this year.

"Although many teachers and priests of the Holy Cross has welcomed the change, as Brooks was difficult to drive this process."

In 1990, Holy Cross and Brandeis University, which has a largely Jewish student body, united in the creation of an endowed chair in each school to promote understanding among students of both religions. "This is an opportunity to take us further along the road to reduce discrimination," said the father of Brooks at the time.

"The vision of the Holy Cross is that the Catholic community in general does not understand our spiritual heritage shared with the Jewish community."

John Edward Brooks was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, July 13, 1923, the eldest of four children of John and Mildred Brooks. His father worked for the telephone company.

The young John was admitted to the Holy Cross in 1942 but joined the army a year later and served in the body's signal to Europe. His academic interests departs from theological scientists.

Immediately after graduating from Holy Cross in 1949 with a degree in physics, joined the Jesuits. After obtaining an MA in philosophy at Boston College in 1954, he returned to Holy Cross as an instructor of mathematics and physics.

After he earned a master's degree in geophysics from Boston University and a doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome.

P. Brooks, who was ordained in 1959, he returned to Santa Cruz, a professor in the department of religious studies and was president from 1964 until being named president.

He is survived by her sisters, Mildred and Marion Brooks, and his brother, Paul.

Father Brooks not only convince young blacks to attend the Holy Cross, Mrs. Brady wrote in "fraternity", but also organized by the university that provides scholarships, and mentor and defended through the years universities are often difficult.

By Clarence Thomas wrote, the father of Brooks, "was a combination of friend, uncle, priest, father, holy and good Samaritan." He cited Judge Thomas: ". I was not part of a program of Father Brooks .... They were symbols of what we were just kids."

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Versatile Soprano Evelyn Lear Dies at 86

Evelyn Lear, an American soprano who became a star in Europe in 1950 and later won success in the U.S. to sing some of the most difficult roles in contemporary opera, died Sunday at Sandy Spring, Maryland, for 86 years.

His son, Jan Stewart, has confirmed the death.

Ms. Lear, who sang over 90 performances with the Metropolitan Opera in 1960 and later was praised by both sides of the Atlantic for his musical voice warm, expressive and dramatic stage presence.

As recitalist, was also known for his versatility, singing works by composers from Mozart to Schoenberg to Sondheim.

He was best known as an interpreter of Berg. By mid-century Europe, Miss Lear was considered one of the leading interpreters of Berg's Lulu, the convicted murderer of prostitutes in the center of his 1937 opera of the same name.

At the Met, Miss Marie Lear sing atonal opera "Wozzeck" Berg about infidelity and murder.

Review your Marie there in 1969, Harold C. Schonberg wrote in The New York Times that Mrs. Lear was "intelligent, capable of producing floods of well focused tone, remarkably intense." He added, however, that their physical attractiveness has worked against it, making relationship with Marie "this vulture of Wozzeck" implausible.

Evelyn Shulman was born in Brooklyn on January 8, 1926. His maternal grandfather, Savel Kwartin, was a featured singer in Europe and the United States. His mother, Nina Kwartin Shulman, was an opera singer and performer, largely abandoned her career for marriage and motherhood.

Evelyn Young had decided to be a singer when she was 3 years, but was attacked by studying piano and French horn. After an early marriage to Walter Lear, a doctor, ended in divorce, she decided to pursue a real vocal training and enrolled at the Juilliard School.

In 1955 he married a classmate, the baritone Thomas Stewart, who would have appeared frequently in recitals and recordings.

Like many homegrown singers of her time, Ms. Lear and Mr. Stewart worked under the weight of being American. American opera houses of the period showed a preference for the Old World, with first class American singers often transmitted in favor of second-class Europeans.

Mr. Stewart was about to give up music for a job at IBM, where he and Ms. Lear received Fulbright scholarships to study in Germany. He moved to Europe, where they made their reputation.

In 1958, Miss Lear has a lot of warning to sing songs of Richard Strauss' Four Last, "with the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. He had learned the score in just four days.

His talent for quick study in his well-served two years later, when the Vienna Festival has requested that you take the role of Lulu - a role that had never sung - in the short term. The work consists of the 12-tone style or "standard" eminently unhummable a technique that uses all 12 notes of the Western musical scale strictly twice.

"Why should this be so difficult condemnadament?" Ms. Lear recalled having thought that he was learning the role. But she has learned in a few weeks, and their performance, with Karl Böhm, has internationalism.

Ms. Lear made its debut at the Met in 1967, with Zubin Mehta, as Lavinia (the Electra counterpart) in the world premiere of "Mourning Becomes Electra." The work of Marvin David Levy, is an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's work, was a reworking of the Greek myth of Orestes.

In late 1960, suffering from the wear of the voice, Miss Lear lost his voice temporarily. He reorganized his repertoire, switching his attention to Mozart and Italian opera, and his career has been renewed. She sang with the Met until his retirement in 1985.

His other Met roles include Octavian in Richard Strauss's "Knight of the Rose" and his composer in "Ariadne auf Naxos", Cherubino in Mozart's "nozze di Figaro" and Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni", Alice Ford in Verdi "Falstaff", and in subsequent years, the Countess Geschwitz in "Lulu".

Stewart died in 2006. Ms. Lear, who lived in Rockville, Md., is survived by his son, Jan, a daughter, Bonni Stewart, and two grandchildren.

With her husband, she founded the Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Program, under the auspices of the Wagner Society of Washington DC

If Ms. Lear was best known for appearing in the work of murder, incest and such things, then his reputation, he explained, not inconvenienced her.

"I like Handel, Mozart and Strauss, and I like my heroines too modern neurotic," he told The New York Times in 1967. "I've never been afraid to make a bad sound on stage, because it is real and reality is never ugly."

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Researcher on Divorce Judith Wallerstein dies at 90

In 1970, preschool teachers Marin County psychologist Judith Wallerstein asked, how to deal with a flood of children who could not sleep, cried constantly, or were too aggressive with their playmates. The common denominator, the teachers said, was that parents were divorced.

Wallerstein tried to investigate the issue and, not finding anything useful, it was decided to undertake.

She has launched what would become 25 years of research, producing alarming results that have been long married grandmother of five, a polarizing figure in a contentious national debate.

Once described by Time magazine as the "godmother of the reaction against divorce," died on June 18 in Wallerstein Piedmont, California, after surgery for an intestinal obstruction, said his daughter Amy Friedman Wallerstein. He was 90 years.

When Wallerstein began to see the impact of divorce, the children would be difficult fleeting thought. Instead, he discovered that half of the 131 children studied, the time has not healed the wounds, but was allowed to become worse, creating "question, underperforming men, young self-ironic and angry sometimes, and women "who, of course, is very strained relations with romance.

In light of this delayed effect, Wallerstein came to a controversial conclusion: if parents could swallow their misery, they must remain together for their children.

"What in many cases may be the best because parents can not be the best for children," he told Newsday in 1994. "It's a real moral problem".

She wrote about the consequences of divorce in several books, including "Second Chances: Men, women and children ten years after divorce" (1989) and "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce" (2000). Co-author Sandra Blakeslee, books on news, talk shows and Wallerstein put on the covers of magazines, and became a bestseller.

The values ??of family supporters embraced the research of Wallerstein, but critics found much to criticize. Many critics said that his sample was too small, had no control group for comparison and that was to favor families with psychological problems that preceded the divorce.

The larger studies and scientific experts from other family members have supported some of the results refute Wallerstein and others.

Andrew J. Cherla, Johns Hopkins University sociologist, who wrote the 2009 book "The Marriage-Go-Round," he said last week that the contribution of Wallerstein, "was to show that the effects of divorce may appear sometimes delay in young adults - something she calls an effect of "inactive".

Despite the warning that their findings apply mainly to families in distress through a divorce, Cherla said that his work remains influential.

"People still cite and argue for or against it," said Cherla.

Wallerstein began his studies at a good time. In 1970, California became the first state to implement no-fault divorce, and other states quickly followed suit. Divorce rates began to rise.

With a case study, Wallerstein recruit families who had sought marriage counseling to his therapy center in Corte Madera. Concludes with a group of 131 children from 60 middle-class families who were going through divorce in Marin County in 1971.

Children were interviewed every five years for 25 years and found that half of young adults had problems such as anger, depression, alcohol abuse, physical abuse and school failure. The development of intimacy and trust was particularly hard.

"What he had told his parents for years was that divorce is difficult for children, but eventually, had to adapt," he told The Times in 2000. "We did not know that its effects would be so powerful for so long, that would be a factor in young adults in search of love."

In 1990, he realized that two decades of life on the effects of marital failure and had not been depressed, so he decided to study the problem and Blakeslee, wrote "The Good Marriage: How and why love lasts , "published in 1995.

Judith Wallerstein Saretsky was born in New York and a child has lived for 10 years in what was then the territory of British Mandate of Palestine.

He studied at Columbia University and the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Topeka Kansas, and received his doctorate in psychology from the University of Lund in Sweden.

From UC Berkeley, Dr. Wallerstein has received the Distinguished Teaching Award, and has received many awards for his research, writing and clinical work.

He is survived by her husband of 65 years, Dr. Robert Wallerstein, president of the department of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, two daughters, Amy Friedman of Piedmont and Nina Wallerstein of Albuquerque, and five grandchildren. A son, Michael, a scientist at Yale University known politician, died in 2006.

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Classic Ferraris Designer Sergio Pininfarina dies at 85

Sergio Pininfarina, which led to a family known for its elegant designs Ferraris and other cars, has died. He was 85 years.

Pininfarina died Monday night at his home in Turin, the company announced Tuesday. No cause was given.

The company was founded in 1930, the cars designed by Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Cadillac, Rolls-Royce and Volvo, but is more closely associated with Ferrari, designing nearly all models in 1950.

The design of the house was founded by his father, Battista "Pinin" Farina, who later changed his surname to Pininfarina.

Sergio Pininfarina was born September 8, 1926, in Turin and joined the family business after earning a degree in mechanical engineering at Turin Polytechnic in 1950. It became general manager in 1960, CEO in 1961 and president in 1966, when his father died.

Pininfarina has transformed the business from a boutique producer of hand crafted designs in high volume production that have maintained the beauty of Italian design of automobiles.

In early 1950 the company was less than 1,000 cars a year. Sorted by Pininfarina, the production increased to over 50,000 a year.

Among the cars were popular, the company designed the Fiat 124 Sport Spider and Alfa Romeo Spider. E 'was also responsible for Ferrari floor, high-performance sports cars, including 250 and 500 and the Dino, Daytona, and the 356 Modena.

Each car has withstood the scrutiny of Pininfarina.

"No design, unique design, unique style that leaves the factory without my approval," he told The Christian Science Monitor in 1981.

And it raises the design of major importance in car manufacturing.

"Frankly, I think that trying to minimize the importance of the aesthetic appearance of a car just because they do not design cars can be beautiful," he said in a speech in 1977.

In an interview with The Times the following year, he said, "You're talking to a man who is enamored of cars ....

"Ferrari 12-cylinder is, well, like a cathedral. You go in and pray. Instead of Brahms, feel the Vroom, Vroom!"

Pininfarina has resigned to become honorary president of the company in 2006 and was also named an Italian senator for life.

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Oakland Raider Ben Davidson dies at 72

Ben Davidson, the iconic face of a 1960-Oakland Raiders and later became a fixture in popular ads for Miller Lite, has died. He was 72.

Davidson, who had been treated for prostate cancer, died Monday night, former Raiders coach John Madden told KCBS radio in San Francisco.

If the deceased Al Davis was the creator of Renegade Raiders, then Davidson might be considered one of the founding fathers, by cutting a strip larger than life with his mustache and intimidating 6-foot-8 with end of the physical presence defense.

The 11-year career as a professional footballer began with the Green Bay Packers.

After one season there and two with the red leather-Washington, who fled when he moved to the AFL and the Raiders in 1964. "It was an AFL All-Star three times and played in Super Bowl II with the Raiders.

The career of Davidson was rarely predictable. Born June 14, 1940, in Los Angeles, did not play sports as a child growing up in Boyle Heights and would not give up football after his freshman year at East Los Angeles College.

"I think I decided I would try," he told The Times in an interview in 2010 home in San Diego. "I did not know the positions. I knew the center was probably in the middle, but I had one or two games."

Davis was shot in the eye back to Davidson when Davis was an assistant coach at USC. Davidson moved from East Los Angeles College, University of Washington and has won two Rose bowls with Huskies in 1960 and 1961.

Davis and Davidson were finally able to join forces in Oakland, after Davidson arrived a year after Davis.

"We had fun," Davidson said in an interview in 2010.

That was an understatement. The sense of fun and Davidson football made him a person was denied a natural firaire television after his football career, most prominently in ads for Miller Lite.

His first film role was the 1970 Robert Altman's "MASH", which brought a slice of the Raider Nation 4077, playing in a football game intersquad.

"I hate to say this to the press," Davidson said in an interview in 2010. "But I have 70 years and have never had a real job."

His most important moment of controversy in the field was in 1970. It was then pulled the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson, the end of a game, Dawson dives in with his helmet when Dawson was on the floor. Chiefs receiver Otis Taylor said open, so that in a deck of banks.

Finally, a 17-14 lead into the final of the leaders and the Raiders 17-17 to win the AFC West.

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Actor Andy Griffith dies at 86

Andy Griffith, actor tempering the South so fascinated the public for over 50 years on Broadway, in film, on record, especially on television - especially as the sheriff of the small town in the sitcom long duration that bears his name - died Tuesday at home in Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

He was 86 years.

His death was confirmed by the Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie.

Griffith was already a star with rave reviews on Broadway in "No time for sergeants" and Elia Kazan movie "A Face in the crowd" when "The Andy Griffith Show" made its debut in autumn of 1960. He loved a later generation of viewers in 1980 and 90 in the role of legal drama "Matlock."

But his fame has never been as great as it was in 1960 when he starred for eight years as Andy Taylor, Commissioner of intelligent fiction southern town of Mayberry, current herd includes a weekly eccentric as his deputy ineffective Barney Fife and the ingenuity of the gas station attendant Gomer Pyle and, as a widower, patiently raising a young son, Opie.

"The Andy Griffith," Monday night on CBS was No. 4 ranking in the Nielsen its first year and never fell below the Top 10. It was No. 1 in 1968, his last season. After the race ended with episode No. 249, the show lived series spin-off, endless repetition and even Sunday school classes organized around their moral lessons rustic.

The show imagined a world soothing soak holes, ice cream social events and rock hard for over a decade of family values ​​that has grown increasingly turbulent. His vision of rural simplicity is part of a trend that began with the TV show "The McCoy" on ABC in 1957 and later included "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Green Acres", "Petticoat Junction" and "Hee Haw".

But at the end of 1960, the networks have appreciated younger viewers Cornpone despised, and Andy decided to go to the movies after the 1966-67 season. CBS made a very lucrative offer for him to do another season, and "The Andy Griffith Show" has become the No. 1 series in the 1967-68 season.

But Mr. Griffith had decided to go ahead, and so also the spirit of the age. "Rowan & Martin Laugh-In" with his statements about drugs and Vietnam, and "The Mod Squad", an integrated police force, have been grabbing a new generation of viewers.

But the characters of "The Andy Griffith Show" - Barney (Don Knotts), Gomer (Jim Nabors), Opie (Ron Howard), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), and the rest, including Gomer Pyle's cousin Goober (George Lindsey, who died in May) - has remained temptadorament real lovers who still collect online and sometimes in person at the club fans to see replays.

Andy Griffith was much more complex than Andy Taylor and his fellow residents of Mayberry, but the show was based in his hometown, Mount Airy, North Carolina

Since the initiative in the Elia Kazan movie "A Face in the crowd" in 1957, the story of a TV character who becomes a crude power-mad megalomaniac, Mr. Griffith has authenticity to their roles given a dark intelligent.

From 1970 to 1990, Mr. Griffith has starred in six films with the "murder" or "kill" in their titles. In 1983, in "Murder in County Cowetta" has played an evil man who is terribly cold stone while he was tied to the electric chair.

Mr. Griffith, the fans probably imagined as a taujà happy, but he liked the life in Hollywood and he knew his way around a wine list.

His career was controlled by a personal manager, Richard O. Linke, which prohibited Mr. Griffith to request the views of anyone, not even his wife.

"If there is ever a question about something, I'll do what he wants me to do," Griffith said in an interview with the New York Times Magazine in 1970. "If not for him I would have gone to the toilet."

Far from relaxing, sociable Taylor, slurred Andy, Mr. Griffith was a lonely and anxious. When you reach a door in anger, and two episodes of the second season of "The Andy Griffith Show" had a bandaged hand (explained in the program as Sheriff Taylor suffered an injury while stopping criminals).

But the 35 million viewers of "The Andy Griffith Show" was reassuring to know that, even at the height of his popularity, Mr. Griffith was driving a Ford pickup truck and bought the clothes hanger. He said that his honor is preferred, 10-mile stretch of road in North Carolina that bears his name in 2002. (That was before President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.

As TV Guide reporter put it in an article in 1963 about the popularity of the series: "The dialogue - read with joy by Griffith intelligent, uncompromising seriousness Knotts - requires an exceptionally high level of performance of comedy and solid understanding of the subtleties of character. "

Considered the driving force behind the series, Griffith was heavily involved with the production of the show and helped shape the script and characters.

George Lindsey, who joined the series in 1965 as Goober, told the Times in 1993: "He is probably the best script constructionist who ever lived." Griffith added, "I found 110% since we took him to his level."

Ron Howard, who grew up to become one of Hollywood directors, Griffith believes that "such a wonderful guy for me."

Howard told People magazine in 1986 that Griffith "created an atmosphere of fun and hard work to try to make my films."

When Griffith and most of the major cast members met to "Return to Mayberry" in 1986, was one of television's top rated movie of the year.

"The backbone of our show is love," Griffith once said. "There's something Mayberry and Mayberry folk who do not leave you."

The small town atmosphere represented in Mayberry was not far from his childhood Griffith in Mount Airy, North Carolina, a small village at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he was born on 1 June 1926.

An only child, Griffith grew up singing and playing guitar with his mother. He learned to tell funny stories of his father, who made their living modestly in Mount Airy Furniture Co.

Griffith holds a BA in music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and dreamed of becoming a professional singer on stage. On a whim, she auditioned for a campus production of Gilbert and Sullivan "The gondolers".

"I liked it," Griffith recalled in a 1996 interview with National Public Radio. "I had two songs, both alone. I have received good reviews. He said I had a great time and represented the comedy is leading all the Gilbert and Sullivan did while I was there."

After graduating in 1949, Griffith teaches music at a high school in Goldsboro, NC, but he and his first wife, Barbara, singer and musician who was a member of the university theater group, continued to perform at Carolina North annual popular outdoor theater, "The Lost Colony" at Roanoke Island.

One thing that has always bothered Griffith was recruiting people that their interpretation of Sheriff Taylor was practically the same game. He said not only was devoted to the creation of a character designed for the small town sheriff, but also co-wrote almost every episode - even if not received credit for writing.

"You're supposed to believe in the character," said Griffith. "You must not think: 'Hey, Andy makes a storm."

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Former NBC president Julian Goodman Dies at 90

Julian Goodman, who has produced a experiodista the second Kennedy-Nixon before becoming the president of NBC during a tumultuous period of conflict with the government of Nixon, died Monday at his home in Juno Beach, Fla. He was 90 years.

The cause was kidney failure, said a spokesman for the family.

Although proud of the fact that often the defense of the First Amendment and the white of the Nixon White House as a political opponent, Mr. Goodman had a reputation for being shy and never ask for a promotion or a raise.

"People gave me when I did my job well," he wrote in 1985.

When he became president of NBC in 1965, told the New York Times, "I am not an ambitious man."

However, four years later, was engaged in a war of words with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who has accused the media coverage of the Vietnam War. Mr. Goodman said: "Obviously, I would have preferred a different kind of television communication - What I submit to any group was in authority at the time."

After discussing it with the composer of Nixon speeches Patrick J. Buchanan, who said the network should be decentralized, but Mr. Goodman called it "dangerous thought". Has resisted the administration when he threatened to licensees of broadcast news, if the divisions of the routine gave President Richard M. Nixon what he considered fair - that is, more favorable - coverage.

During his tenure, NBC, Mr. Goodman has also negotiated a record $ 1,000,000 agreed to keep Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show." He joined other leaders of the network to push to end the Fairness Doctrine, which forced the networks to the same time to different opinions. (E 'was finally abandoned.) I was forced to apologize to viewers in 1968, after NBC cut a message on a national network of New York Jets and Oakland Raiders, so play a movie version of "Heidi" could go as expected.

Viewers never see the end of the game, later known as the "Heidi Bowl" when Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minutes to overcome a 32-29 advantage in New York. Mr. Goodman called the schedule change "as an excuse."

"I miss the end of the game as much as anyone else," he said.

Bryn Julian Goodman was born on 1 May 1922, in Glasgow, Kentucky, and began his journalism career as a reporter for $ 3 a week for The Times of Glasgow.

After serving in the army, he moved to Washington where he met William McAndrews, head of NBC News, who joined the news desk of the night, replacing David Brinkley.

As manager of the Washington office, Mr. Goodman later became a strong supporter of Mr. Brinkley, NBC News press paired with Chet Huntley to anchor the 1956 Democratic and Republican conventions. The two came to fame in the anchor of the evening news network together for over a decade.

Mr. Goodman often jokes that Mr. Brinkley freeing the table the night was his greatest contribution to journalism.

Mr. Goodman was surprised that it has been identified by the Nixon government. (His name appeared on a list of White House "enemies", a complete list of the original 20 "enemies" of Nixon).

He recalled a visit in 1970 of collaborating Nixon, Charles W. Colson, who said he had come with the intention of intimidating. But Mr. Colson and Mr. Goodman describes as complacent, because the only ornament on the desk of Mr. Goodman was a medal from Mr. Nixon's 1969 inauguration.

That Mr. Colson did not know was that Mr. Goodman was notoriously messy table cleared, leaving only the medal as a joke.

Mr. Goodman has produced the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960 in Washington, in a study of the NBC.

Cleveland rejected the initial election, saying he could not find a suitable location there. Cleveland responded with shade, and Mr. Goodman rarely puts a foot in the city again.

Through their associations with Mr. McAndrews and then NBC president Robert Kintner, Mr. Goodman went up to the network level, reaching the president's office, when Mr. Kintner was fired in 1965 .

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Virtuoso of Latin Music Yomo Toro Dies at 78

Yomo Toro, a force in the Latin music scene in New York since 1950 and a virtuoso player of the left hand of four, an instrument of Puerto Rico mandolinlike, died Saturday in the Bronx. He was 78 years.

The cause was kidney failure, said his friend Aurora Flores, writer, journalist and musician.

Salsa, a dance orchestra music that took place in ambitious composer, jazz harmony and Cuban roots, moved to his best solo instrumental to the fore in the 60 and 70.

The records with Willie Colón, Hector Lavoe, Larry Harlow and the supergroup known as the Fania All-Stars, the sound became Mr. Toro, instantly recognizable.

He played the guitar and the rules of the guitar requinto smaller, but better known as cuatrista. Associated with popular culture and music of Puerto Rican jibaro or inside mountains, the four have 10 strings in five groups of two octaves, unisons or both.

Mr. Toro could be cut with an orchestra, especially once you have started adding an electric truck and connected to an amplifier.

In the records as Mr. Columbus "Dona Tona" and "La Murga" and the Fania All-Stars "Take off you" - taken from a 1971 performance at the Cheetah Club in New York that was filmed for the documentary "Our Latin Thing" - has appeared as soloist with great thrust and swing.

Influenced by Cuban musician Arsenio Rodriguez, who played three (analogous to Cuba in four), was closed to the rhythm section vampires burst into frantic strumming and brilliant or improvised melodically, landing his notes between beats.

Mr. Toro was born Victor Guillermo Toro Vega Ramos Rodríguez Acosta July 26, 1933, in Ensenada, the municipality of Guánica, near the southwestern Puerto Rico. His father, Alberto, has led to a truck for sugarcane mills in southern Puerto Rico Company and four played in a band with Mr. Toro uncles.

Mr. Toro followed his father to the parts of the house and began learning to play the requinto and four very young. In his teens he moved to Saint John to work with the band Los Quatro aces (four aces), led by singer reported sold. The group's work led him to New York for the first time in 1953, and had settled there permanently in 1957.

Mr. Toro of Puerto Rico and the traditional Mexican music played on guitar and four in New York through the 1950 and '60 - with singers Odilio Gonzalez and Victor Santiago and Los Panchos Rolón, the trio internationally renowned Mexican bolero, among others.

In the 60's hosted his own television Channel 41 in New York, "The Show of Yomo Toro", and has fully achieved with the sauce, which was becoming both a musical and a progressive grassroots movement.

It's been hired to play in a salsa album with Christmas themes by Mr. Dove, "Christmas Assault", which included songs of celebration of Puerto Rico, or the tradition of Christmas carols. It became one of the most successful albums of Fania, the label's largest salsa, and his reputation was solidified the role of four in the sauce.

Album of success has spawned a sequel in 1973, and a third holiday album in 1979 with Mr. Lavoe and singer Daniel Santos. (From the covers of these two albums represent Mr. Toro is dressed as Santa Claus. Short, round, happy and rarely seen without a hat after 1970, fits this role and went on to attend holiday concerts .

Mr. Bull is a personality remains modest compared to some of the other superstars of the sauce. "We sat in the living room and play like he played at Madison Square Garden," said Flores. "He brought the salt-of-the-ground mentality jibaro music. In this way, culture has taught us that we can be proud of the culture."

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Pro baseball star Doris Sams Dies at 85

Doris Sams, who pitched a perfect game and established a home in one season of professional baseball record for home runs by women in the world 1940 and the 50's that inspired the movie "A League of Their Own , "died Thursday in Knoxville, Tennessee for 85 years.

The cause was complications of Alzheimer's disease, said his cousins ​​Gordon Sams.

Sams was one of the leaders of the League All-American Girls Professional Baseball, founded in 1943 by Phil Wrigley, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, to provide entertainment for the night in the cities of the Midwest and maintain interest in baseball alive when the children were losing most of its players to military service in World War II.

League of Women, which survived in 1954, was largely forgotten until the 1992 Hollywood comedy with Madonna and Geena Davis and Tom Hanks as a field manager who led the profane to the players of their tears and cried after the loss of famous "Can not cry in baseball!"

Play for real women for women in vibrant and highly competitive athletes who have often been managed by former major league players and played through them many abrasions, or "strawberry", scroll through your uniforms in a short skirt.

"We had a lot of girls who can play and that really understands the game, and administrators appreciate that," Sams told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989.

Playing Michigan Muskegon Lasser and his successor franchise, the Kalamazoo Lasser, 1946 to 1953, Sams, who was 5 feet 9 inches and wore glasses, strong arm shrewd, side and overhead, as the rules governing the delivery is developed.

A record 12 homers in the league in 1952, playing in 109 games, beat by better than 300 in each of his last four seasons, he threw several brokers play in the gardens when not pitching, and was player of the league of "In the 1947 and 1949.

Once he won the duel of the Rockford Peaches of Lois Florreich through 22 entries, winning 1-0, to remember, a game that was tied after seven innings of date because of the short game dual listings.

"After that, I told my boss:" I do not want spread over seven innings games are too long. "Macy Sue Sams quoted as saying in the history of the league," a new game "(1993).

Sams has launched his perfect game in August 1947, retiring 27 batters to the daisies in Fort Wayne to win 2-0, then threw a party with no hits in the next year Salles Springfield.

He attributes his gardeners with several dazzling play this game perfect.

"The last shot, a girl has pushed almost to the throat," he told The New York Times in 1988, when the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, introduced a permanent exhibition of the ball female baseball. "I 'bounced off his knee, I almost tore the patella, and the whereabouts made a short stop and took off."

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Jazz Trumpeter Abram Wilson Dies at 38

Abram Wilson, a jazz trumpeter and acclaimed American composer from New Orleans, which helped a new generation of jazz artists in Britain, playing a kind of cultural attaché of the cradle of jazz, died on 9 June in London. He was 38 years.

He died several days after stopping a series of concerts and recording equipment in a hospital with stomach pains, his wife, Jennie Cashman, said the London Evening Standard newspaper. The cause was cancer, said his wife.

Mr. Wilson, who grew up in New Orleans and its rich musical traditions hybrid was known for his combination of musical forms - Quicksilver mix of bebop, with storms of hip-hop songs of Stevie Wonder sang with the heart of his modest voice Domingo.

He wove into the plot of his most ambitious music. The autobiographical concept album of 2007, "Ride! Wheel to the Modern Day Delta," for example, was a kind of work of a jazz trumpeter who tries to escape his roots to become a jazz superstar hip-hop, but returns to "sometimes to the extreme.

While British make a series of awards to his work, including the BBC Jazz Award for best new CD in 2007, Mr. Wilson has demonstrated a commitment to their roots of jazz Americans often faced with a fervor almost missionary, music critics, he said.

On stage, between numbers, sometimes gave impromptu lessons in the history of the many streams that flowed into the jazz music of New Orleans.

In cities where loans are made English, who often took his hand in schools to talk about the history of music, teaching the basics of improvisation and give you a flavor of the music of many They had never heard.

"I speak of the story - how people were brought from Africa to work on cotton plantations in America, and how the blues was created, and how he brought jazz," said an interview with a British newspaper in 2008. "Jazz is so different. People should be introduced to it."

Jason Toynbee, an expert on immigration cultural influences at the Open University of London, has described Mr. Wilson as a figure "very important" in the British music scene of jazz known as Black. "Approaching jazz as a form of music in evolution, but also as an important cultural force in history," he said in an interview last week.

In a melting pot of British jazz musicians from Europe, the Caribbean and Africa, added Mr. Toynbee, Mr. Wilson has seen his role, at least in part, as a representative of the American sensibility.

Abram Wilson was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 30, 1973, the eldest of six children of Doris and Willie Wilson. After his family moved to New Orleans, was inspired to learn the trumpet, with local musicians to visit their school.

But he credited his parents with his decision to make music his profession. When I was a teenager, said he told his father that he was considering becoming a lawyer, a doctor or an engineer. His father replied: "You know what I will take a screen test."

Mr. Wilson attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. also studied there), and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University before receiving a master in performance and composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.

In New York, he formed his own quartet and played with trumpeter Roy Hargrove Big Band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and rhythm and blues singer Ruth Brown.

After moving to London in 2002, Mr. Wilson has made three albums for the records of dunes, the British jazz: "Jazz Warrior" (2004), "! Ride ferris wheel to the Modern Day Delta "(2007) and" Life Tables "(2009).

He is survived by his wife, his parents, four brothers, a sister and his grandmother, Oradell Barker.

Had just finished and started to run a jazz suite life of Philippa Schuyler, an American piano prodigy, born black father and white mother, who visited the country in 1930 and '40, I was disappointed by American racism and died in 1967 at a charity mission in Vietnam in 35 years.

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Jim Drake dies at 83

Aeronautical engineer Jim Drake had already solved the "riddle" coupling of a surfboard with a sail, when a young man who stopped to admire the "Lower the Board" in late 1960 suggested that he called "perfect name": windsurfing.

In his garage in Santa Monica, Drake had designed and built a prototype designed to operate in a new way - on foot - and guided by a set of hand wing of the invention.

He first tried the card in 1967 out of Marina del Rey and the "wind-propelled apparatus" was patented three years later.

The vessel has caused the sport to take off in Europe, and by early 1980 some 200,000 had been sold windsurfing enthusiasts.

Windsurfing when he debuted as an Olympic sport in 1984, Drake looked at his first competition outside of Long Beach.

There was also a measure of the influence of the amorphous tip: "Windsurfing" essentially has become the generic name for the sport.

Drake, who also made a significant contribution to the aerospace industry, died June 19 at his home in Pfafftown, North Carolina, of complications from pulmonary disease, said her daughter Hollis Fleming. He was 83 years.

While working for the Defense Department in the East in 1962, thought of the "standing on a surfboard in the middle of the Potomac and the power of the kite flying with a laptop," said Drake in 1981 The Times.

Back in California, the sailor has suggested the idea to combine sailing and surfing in his intimate friend Hoyle Schweitzer, a surfer who offered to pay for the development board, Drake told the Times in 1983.

I had to understand "how to make everything work in a simple, direct and emotionally satisfying settings. The key was how to handle," said Drake in 1983. "I knew I wanted to stay and did not want a rod thyme, then there was the problem of thinking in a control mechanism."

Plates small sailboats were popular at that time, but had to be used during the session. Drake devised a way of uniting sailing on board via a universal joint, allowing the screw to navigate a full circle or flat - and allowed the pilot to stand. Has also been updated "an old idea" that had worked on many boats, appliances laptop quadrilateral that has allowed the wing to tilt and rotate in any direction.

From the beginning, Schweitzer was more interested in the transformation of a business card, Drake recalled later. Together they form Windsurfer International to manufacture the panels, and both their names appear on the patent.

At best, Drake said he considered himself "re-inventor" of windsurfing, two men who could claim for himself the invention. "My contribution was to be really effective and functional," said Windsurf magazine in 1996.

When the Association of Professional surfing. Schweitzer and Drake presented his Hall of Fame in 2002, was acclaimed as an aid "to mold windsurfing into its present form." The Drake Group called the "father of surfing", Schweitzer and co-developer "who brought surfing to the masses."

However, the couple had separated for a long time. In early 1970, Drake sold his interest in the business of Schweitzer for 36,000 dollars, equivalent to about U.S. $ 175 000 today.

Drake then explained his decision by saying simply "It's just too little my cup of tea."

"It's always been a hobby for him," said his daughter. "He had six mouths to feed young and I honestly never wanted to give the aerospace industry, which he loved."

As an aeronautical engineer and analyst for national security systems, dividing his time between private industry in Southern California and the government work in Washington.

He worked on the project by the X-15 rocket plane and finding the configuration of the successful supersonic strategic bomber B-70, according to the Times in 1983.

He also was involved in the initial plans for the Tomahawk cruise missile, according to the Rand Corporation, where he worked as an aeronautical engineer.

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Yitzhak Shamir-Former Israeli Prime Minister Dies at 96

Yitzhak Shamir was a fighter for the Jews long before the creation of Israel, an underground leader who led the militia against the British and the Arabs.

Did not make excuses and no compromises - not as an underground fighter, a Secret Service agent who hunted the Nazis, and as one of the longest serving prime ministers of Israel refused to negotiate for land.

The 96-year-old Shamir, who has attacked all my life to the belief that Israel should hang in the territory and never trust an Arab regime, died Saturday at a nursing home in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. The Israeli press said Shamir had suffered from Alzheimer's disease in recent years.

Israeli Prime Minister Shamir was, seventh, serving as prime minister for seven years, 1983-84 and 1986-92, leading his party to victory in the elections twice, despite the lack of much of the charisma outward characteristic of many modern politicians. A little over 5 feet (1.52 meters) tall and built like a block of granite, has projected an image of strength unhindered during the first intifada, or Palestinian uprising against Israel in the West Bank and Gaza.

His time in office was turbulent, marked by massive airlift thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the Palestinian uprising and the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraq launched 39 Scud missiles against Israel.

"Yitzhak Shamir was a brave warrior, before and after the founding of the State of Israel," said Israeli President Shimon Peres, the old political rival of Mr. Shamir. "He was faithful to his view, a great patriot and a true lover of Israel, who has served his country with integrity and commitment without end. May his memory be blessed."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Shamir, "directed by Israel with a deep loyalty to the nation and the earth and the eternal values ​​of the Jewish people."

And the White House, Shamir praised for helping to create strong ties with the United States
"Yitzhak Shamir, who devoted his life to the State of Israel. From his days working for the independence of Israel in his service as prime minister, has strengthened Israel's security and promote cooperation between the U.S. and Israel, "says note.

Defeated in the 1992 elections, Shamir resigned as head of the Likud Party, to watch from the sidelines as his successor, Yitzhak Rabin negotiated interim agreements of land for peace with the Palestinians.

The agreements, including the recognition of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel did nothing to alleviate their suspicions.

In an interview in 1997 with headquarters in New York Jewish Post, said: "The Arabs always dream of destroying us, I do not recognize us as an integral part of this region" ..

The labor movement, from Israel to power the first three decades, has accepted a UN partition plan of 1947 to allow the creation of the Jewish state alongside a Palestinian entity. For Shamir, which was tantamount to treason.
Jazwernicki Yitzhak Born in Poland in the current 1915. Shamir moved to pre-state Palestine in 1935. Most of his family - his parents, two sisters and their husbands and children, stayed behind and were killed during the Holocaust during World War II.

In late 1980, Shamir publicly revealed that his father had escaped a direct train to a concentration camp, but was later killed by childhood friends took refuge with.

Once in Palestine, Shamir joined Lehi, the most intransigent of the three Jewish movements that struggle for independence from the British Mandate authorities, taking the lead group after the British killed its founder.

The group, known as the Stern Gang after the former leader, Abraham Stern, was considered responsible for a series of attacks including the assassination of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte of, in Jerusalem in September 1948. Lehi commanders considered Bernadotte a British agent who has collaborated with the Nazis.

Shamir often disguised himself as an orthodox rabbi to avoid being arrested by the British. However, he was captured twice, but escaped two British detention camps back in action and resistance. The second field was in Djibouti, Africa.

After Israel was founded in 1948, Shamir was devoted to trade before entering a career in the Israeli spy agency, Mossad. During this period, has carried out operations against the Nazi scientists who were helping the Arab neighbors of Israel to build rockets. Roni Milo, former member of parliament who served under Mr. Shamir mourned his death on Israeli television.

"For years he served in the Mossad, and has published several major operations," said Milo. "Once I asked a street while walking in Tel Aviv, Shamir said:" I know the streets of Cairo and better for the streets of Tel Aviv, Damascus. "

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William C. Stacey dies at 23

Multi-star general attended his funeral in Arlington National Cemetery. His name adorns a fighter. His words echo the halls of Congress.

As the Marine sergeant. William C. Stacey, aged 23, was killed January 31 in a remote hill inAfghanistan'sHelmand province, a letter he wrote to his family has gained much attention from politicians and the media.

"It is cited by liberals, conservatives and general and people across the political spectrum. The use of different ways. But I think Will would be proud of them all," said Robert Stacey, the father of Will and Acting Dean University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences.

The letter was intended only for the family of Stacey. It was opened shortly after two Marines appeared outside of Seattle Stacey 'home sister, Anna, went to school. Will's mother, Robin, I was taught in his class of History University of Washington. Robert Stacey said before he spoke a word, the family knew why the Marines were there.

"My death will not change the world, can be difficult for you to justify its meaning at all," wrote Will Stacey, who left in baseball at the University of Shasta College in Redding to join the Marines 2006.

The military personnel often leave a last letter to their families if they are killed.

"But there is further significance," said Stacey. "Maybe there is still injustice in the world. However, there is a child will live, because the men left the security enjoyed by their country to come to her. And this child will learn to new schools to be built .... He will become a good man every opportunity that his heart may desire. "

"He has the gift of freedom that I enjoyed for so long. If my life takes the security of a child one day change the world, then I know it was worth it."

Stacey is born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up as a star in the Seattle area youth baseball, hitting first the lineup until his skills led him to Shasta College in 2006.

The son of teachers of history, his fascination with the Civil War began as a youth and later became a love story of World War II, says his father.

"It was always a good writer and a leader," said Robert Stacey. "He started thinking more seriously about the military after9/11. Affected him deeply."

"I was looking for something hard to do, and that's why he chose the Marines," said Stacey largest.

In five hits, including four in Afghanistan, Stacey's will became an observer, expert and sniper rifles. He rose to sergeant and head of the squadron.

He acts as a replacement fighter, taking a trip extra, and worked with a British Royal Marine regiment in Helmand province.

The guy who had problems in middle school and became popular in high school became a model of leadership with the 2 nd Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment.

His skills in the field were captured by a war correspondent Lawrence Dabney last November.


Robert Stacey says the family has been adopted by the Marine Corps and he has visited Camp Pendleton. "His colleagues kept saying he was their leader, a man among men particularly special."

Anna, the teenage sister that she was "very close to Will," has replaced the writer, writing poetry to recall it. A poem says as he caught while falling into the fireplace as a child and how it has managed to save her again.

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