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...growth pattern is entirely normal (she now stands 4 ft. 11½| in.). The difference of opinion is understandable, for Brenda peers at the world through mascaraed eyes of ageless innocence while crooning her mating songs in a voice that is part whisky, part Negroid, and all woman. The amalgam had, at last counting, put Brenda nearly up with her male counterparts-Fabian and Paul Anka-as one of the teen-age tycoons...
Samuelson describes himself as a member of the "neoclassical synthesis" school of economics-an amalgam of Keynesian insights and classical theories. He does not believe that the best government is the least government, but neither does he think that direct wage and price controls or government ownership is desirable. Because businessmen sometimes take a narrow and personal view of government policy, based on their own interests, e.g., tariffs, Samuelson says that "our thinking is somewhat at cross-purposes with business philosophy...
Nigeria, Ghana and Guinea were easy to set free: they were almost all black. The first big bastion of white strength to meet the full onslaught of Africa's wind of change was Britain's sprawling Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a seven-year-old amalgam that the more populous blacks disliked from the start...
...crispness requisite for a Mozart overture was in evidence as the orchestra performed the overture to La Clemenza di Tito with note-perfect accuracy while preserving considerable nuance in phrasing. The sutleties never detracted from the urgency and vitality of the piece--Which, by the way, is a curious amalgam of Gluckian melodrama and a Rossinian Flippancy, a flippancy that the Italian himself rarely could equal...
...Friends of Cuba. Havana's most consistent effort is probably devoted to developing pro-Cuba fronts throughout the hemisphere. Venezuela's Committee for the Defense of the Cuban Revolution, an amalgam of Communists and street brawlers, has grown so powerful that it is causing serious division within the political coalition backing President Romulo Betancourt. A few weeks ago, at the funeral of a local Castro leader killed by police, angry members carried his co Sin, decked with the 26th of July red and black colors, through the streets for four hours. Recently, when anti-Castro Cubans held...