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A Texas state district court jury in November 1985 ordered Texaco to pay $10.53 billion in damages to Houston-based Pennzoil. The ap peals court reduced that judgment by $2 billion but the amount remains the largest in U.S. history. Two weeks ago, Texaco filed a motion with the appeals court asking for a new trial because it said Pen nzoil did not file a reply to the ap peals court’s reduction of the judgment. Last week, Texaco asked for a new trial, alleging trial Judge An thony J.P. Farris, who died in Sep tember, was biased against Texaco and its chief lawyer. The latest request said the appeals court simply “rubberstamps” an original judgment that was filled with errors. “We regretfully submit that throughout its opinion, the court ap plies inconsistent reasoning to simi lar situations so as to reach one con sistent conclusion: Pennzoil always wins and Texaco always loses,” Tex aco said. “And, where there is no other way to avoid a pro-Texaco re sult, the court simply ducks the is sue.” Among the alleged violations cited by Texaco is a personal relationship between Farris and Pen- nzoil’s chief attorney, Joseph Jamail; substitution of Farris midway through the trial by Solomon Casseb Jr. despite Texaco’s objection; and the Texas’ courts refusal to apply New York and Delaware law. Casseb upheld the damage award in December 1985, added another $600 million in interest, and said in terest would continue to accrue at a rate of 10 percent a year. Jamail said he was not impressed with the motion. “It’s not anything that’s convinc ing, legally,” he said. “They’re just going through the motions and really more for their own sharehold ers.” Steel drum's sound conjures images of man's old home OYSTER CREEK (AP) — Es mond Christmas keeps the sound of his homeland stored in a spare room. Big yellow drums, made from oil barrels and decorated with fluo rescent orange and green stars, are stacked any which way to fit. “I got a double tenor here — let me show you what it sounds like,” Christmas says, reaching over to strike it with a rubber-tipped mallet. The drum gives off a deep, resonant “bong, bong.” Christmas and three of his chil dren — Churchill, 14; Leslie, 12; and Ricky, 9 — form the Gospel Symphony Steel Band. Christmas plays a tenor pan, the steel band’s lead instrument, like an orchestra’s violin or a choir’s soprano. The four of them thump out religious music with the flavor of the islands in churches, parking lots, shopping malls — any place people will listen. Christmas, 39, learned to play steel drums when he was 14 years old, growing up on the island of To bago in the West Indies. A heavy-equipment operator, Christmas came to the United States in 1973 when he was offered a job in Florida. In 1979, he and his family moved to this small Texas town, bringing their music with them. “It reminds me of the tropical country with all the beauty,” he says of the drums. “The tone, the melody blends so beautifully it amazes peo ple. That’s what I like about it, the tone. It’s just beautiful.” Steel band music was born in the working-class ghettos of Trinidad in the late 1930s, although its roots may be traced back to drum music of Africans, which was imported to the West Indies by slaves. Stories about the specific individ ual or group that invented the steel drum abound. According to Christmas, “One guy threw a rock against a garbage can . . . and found a sound in it.” The people of the West Indies ac companied carnival bands on the streets by striking lengths of bamboo on the ground or against other pieces of bamboo. In search of louder sounds, they started banging buckets, biscuit pans, dustbins, car hubs and oil drums. Experimentation with these new instruments continued and burst into the streets with parades on V-E Day in 1945. Christmas says some of the first drums were played whole, with notes hammered into each end. Drummers carried the heavy drums strapped over their shoulders, and it took a brawny musician to plgy one. The bands gained a broad audi ence in 1951, when a national steel band, the Trinidad All Stars Percus sion Orchestra, performed at the Festival of Britain and went on to be come a highly successful performing group. To bring music out of an oil drum, Christmas first hammers down the top, stretching it into a concave shape. 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