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...meant to be Boston. Daniel has not seen or thought about his son in some 20 years, but he settles down in an upstairs bedroom to live out what promises to be a long and madding old age. In the eariy hours of the morning, before anybody else is astir, he can be heard shuffling through an old dance routine and quavering out the opening lines of his theme song: /'// tell you who's a friend of mine-It's Waltzing Daniel Considine...
...more. Brazil today is an armed camp, astir with hate and fear as it has not been since the bloody, abortive 1932 revolt against President Getúlio Vargas. In the ugly spirit of '32, a Congressman from Sao Paulo cried recently: "We are ready-old, young, even children-to go again to the trenches." Says middle-roading Congressman Joao Calmon, who now packs a Smith & Wesson .38: "Brazil is catching fire so rapidly, we cannot accept a dinner date any more without wondering whether we'll be able to keep...
...street was jumping in those days, and in advance of the vogue, Monk bought a zoot suit and grew a beard; his mood, for a change, was just right for the time. The jazz world was astir under the crushing weight of swing; the big dance bands had carried off the healthiest child of Negro music and starved it of its spirit until its parents no longer recognized it. In defiant self-defense, Negro players were developing something new?"something they can't play," Monk once called it?and at 19, Monk got to the heart of things by joining...
...Rudolph, Yale's 45-year-old architectural Wunderkind. Harvard-trained Rudolph is regarded by many as the fastest comer on the U.S. architectural scene. His Wellesley Jewett Arts Center was acclaimed as a dazzling display of design pyrotechnics. For the city of New Haven, which like Yale is astir with architectural activity, he has put up a parking garage that stretches for two entire blocks, and is probably the world's most esthetic place to stack automobiles. Most recently he has been coordinating architect for Boston's radical new Massachusetts Government Center...
...Doubts Astir. NASA Administrator James Webb complained that the "overall result" of the committee's knife work "is an inadequate level of support for a program that is urgently needed, has achieved a high level of success and is now giving this nation the promise of early pre-eminence in all phases of space exploration." But the committee's cuts did not reflect misgivings about the goal of U.S. pre-eminence in space. What committee members had doubts about was NASA and the way Webb was running...