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_^ • ' 32 NEWS TRIBUNE. J«H«raon City. Mo.. Sundoy. S«p<«mbtr 18.1977 Lasky examines presidential Moynord Ferguson enjoys radiates so much Scream hit the pop charts and Conquistador, solos by four different guys in the band offenses before Watergate enthusiasm when his band is playing that which followed it, has sold more than 400,000 aren't nearly as effective on an album; it opponents._ . An* „.y. derogatorj«-n,tr.t/v»My? informatioinfftvvnfttiofnl the one;wonders if it's all real or partly show copies and is the best-selling big album in sounds like one solo. In person, you By MARION SOURS agents gathered was, of course, leaked to the business. years. Gonna Fly Now, the theme from the have the realization of the identities of th* News Tribune staff changing and different approaches. Pf So one meets Maynard Ferguson to find movie, Rocky, was a single hit for Ferguson. In the course of Victor Lasky's best selling new Johnson even ordered squads of FBI men to that out. And in conversations he has enough In Italy, it was a bigger hit than the version Conquistador has a feel of romantic old spy on persons during 'the 1964 and 1968 Spain and it's definitely a showcase for the book, It Didn't Start With Watergate, Missouri additional verve and good cheer to cause his by Bill Conti, the Italian who wrote it. olaveH Sen. Thomas Eagleton is quoted in a statement Democratic National Conventions. listener to walk around with a brighter spirit it on the soundtrack and had the biggest hit Ferguson trumpet. Ferguson says he and As one top FBI official stated, such antics Chattawav. his record producer, write well about Watergate which could summarize the all day. with with the tune in the United States. theme of the whole book: placed the Nixon Administration in 'a very A New York Times review of a Newport Ferguson's new single, Star Wars, is together. He, playing a single-note favorable light." . Festival concert this summer began, selling well. So are versions by the London instrument, spins put romantic melodies. - "All political parties spy on one another; the Republicans got caught at it." The practice of prying into tax returns oi "Th^ brassy glory of Maynard Ferguson's Symphony and Meco. Chattaway's contributions, on piano, are opponents was greatly criticized during the orcfistra shone brilliantly." And about the About his playing, Ferguson, says, "I'm vitally important but hard to define, Newsman Lasky, a friend of former President Nixon affair. But this, it turns out, was a leader it continued, "He heightens anything probably stronger than ever before." Asked Ferguson says. They work in one room, Nixon, does not, in his book, attempt to defend frequently used device of Kennedy. he $ays, even when it is not inherently what is the highest note he can hit on the playing, trading ideas, with a tape recorder the actions of the former president and his In fact, Kennedy even confided such actions to dramatic, by seeming to almost kiss the last trumpet — and nobody even asks anymore running. colleagues. What he does attempt to do is show his friend Benjamin Bradlee who saw nothing note as he leaps back holding his trumpet whether anybody else can play as Performing used to be fun but making a that the actions of Nixon were no worse than wrong with it, nor with Kennedy's wiretapping, triumphantly in the air." record was too much like taking an those of his predecessors in the White House. election fraud or misuse of federal agencies. "I'm a preformer and I openly know that "When I teach in the schools, I try examination in school, Ferguson says. But The difference was that the media had This is the same Benjamin Bradlee who, as and enjoy it and think that is part of my art," now that he knows more about recording, he suppressed or ignored the many scandals editor of the Washington Post, was so pitiless in Ferguson says. I'm a great lover of to (each them to enjoy as they enjoys that too. He records with his own involving Democratic Presidents Franklin D. learn. I get some very serious his drive to topple Nixon, who had committed far au