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...vacant ambassador's residence, although Ambassador-Designate Sargent Shriver very much wants to get to Paris in time for the big show. He may be thwarted, however, by the fact that Charles de Gaulle is scheduled to visit Rumania next week, and the State Department wants Shriver to await his return before assuming his diplomatic post...
...IRONIC, isn't it, that the full integration of this Negro into society had to await his death. Here too! Our seniors, however, movingly and deeply aware of the inadequacies and dubious relevance of received wisdom to their lives, had asked Dr. King to address them at their Class Day exercises...
...Boston Celtics await the Philadelphia 76ers' invasion of the Garden Wednesday night in hopes of increasing their 1-0 playoff lead in the NBA's Eastern Division finals...
Matteo Calacocci was released in 1963, after 28 years in Bridgewater. And he was lucky. He was lucky, that is, if you compare his case to others who still remain in Bridgewater. The records speak for themselves: J.D., committed as incompetent to stand trial on May 1, 1935, still awaiting trial on a charge of simple assault and battery; W.K., committed February 11, 1951, still waiting to be tried for disturbing the peace; J.M., committed September 14, 1921, still awaiting trial for breaking and entering. These men and hundreds of others in similar positions at Bridgewater and at other state...
Scarfe's figures of the Beatles still repose in Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London. Aware that a similar long-lasting fate might await his Galbraith sculpture, TIME'S editors asked the professor if they could keep the jacket, which he had bought at Horton's of Dublin. Indeed they could, said the Scots-descended economist, "for one hundred dollars!" TIME sent a check posthaste...