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BELLES OF ST. MARY’S
October 20,
Reprinted from TECHNICIAN
MUSICAL NOTES
In the world today, there lives a mag
nificent cellist by the name of Pablo Casals.
No other string player has ever enjoyed such
professional longevity. At the age of ninety-
four, Casals applies himself to the daily rou
tines of practice as conscientiously as a be
ginning musician.
Casals, born on December 29, 1876 in
Vendrall, Spain, now lives in the Santurce
district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a house
by the sea. I le is as sturdy as ever, except for
his legs bothering him at times, and his shin
is still unwrinhled. "Casals, a stubborn being
from his earliest days, seems just as obdurate
in his resistance to the ordinary erosions of
time as he has been in his conception of
music or in matters of the conscience,” a re-
Kim Mims
Point-Blank
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delegates at the 1968 GOP Convention j
under 30, while 83% were 40 years °
older. In 42 states, there were no vocne
gates under 30.)
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tags ‘
The National Democratic Party b®*
to rectify this past discrimination h) ‘ jji
ing all state parties to actively encou™^^,|t
participation of young people in ® t!i(
affairs and to include 18-30 year °
National Convention delegation jlii
able relationship” to their presence •
state population. If
However, despite patty refortn®
spite the 26th Amendment, young P
Michigan and North Dakota will t®
restrictions on their right to ^
nomination of a presidential cano st
1972. Under the election laws of ^
National Convention delegates are
state patty conventions. State convent' ^
tion*\
ts '
;en‘*
gates are chosen at county conventi j,[
count)- delegates are chosen at a P^^^ d'*
marv. This primary election rept®* ^
- all
only opportunity available to
participation in the presidential
process — and it has already been j/
both states, the election occurred in
met of 1970.
As a result, large numbers
. of.jS
and North Dakota voters will he
from taking part in
party s presidential nominee. These
elude (1) 18-20 year olds who are n 2^
franchised by the 26th Amendment
23 year olds who were ineligible
iden» ]f
the 1970 primary, and (3) new resi
have moved into the state since i
Michigan alone, the young penP j
thus disenfranchised number over
Bills have been introduced in
igan and North Dakota legislature
for a
new primary in
1972
cent inten'iewer has said. Casals considers it
a privilege to be a musician. He says if he
had his life to live over again, he would not
change a thing.
It has been nearly seventy-two years since
Casals made his debut, with the Lamoureux
Orchestra in Paris (No\-ember 12, 1899).
Since his debut, Casals has had his own
orchestra in Barcelona, Spain — the Orquestra
Pau Casals whose members were like his
children. However, this orchestra disbanded
due to the civil wars in Spain under FraiKO.
Musicians who have recently heard Casals
play speak “with incredulity of hii persisunt
(Continued on Page Seven)
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kota legislature adjourned without
tion, and Michigan politicians P , pass'.
the reform bill has little chanc® cP
their state’s legislature. Consequ®
action is the only remaining abe |,as K
The Center for Political
pared lawsuits to be brought
oy young voters and new ^ sta'^ jf'
deprived of their voting rights
The suits are based on the ^ ^ ^liti®*^ iJ'
the right to travel, the right
dation, the Equal Protection Cl® jj j
1970 Voting Rights Act. The jely
asked to enjoin present deIcR®”^^(g tP
procedures and to requite each .
a new primary election. ’
ew primary election. cc®**'J
If these court actions are
other barracade in the path 4/
voting rights will have been . aiisl*
If they fail, the youth of M'^biK® ,j *
Dakota will have good reason to j, ^4^
legitimacy of the electoral
shrewd trick to tell someone tha hw
for President — but that he
who the candidates a • ,/
vote
i>- in
^y in wno inc canaiuj"-- , at® ' 1
Tweed used to put it, "I don t jj,
the electing, just $0 long as I
ruling.'