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...neve" dances. He has been known to turn his baton over in midconcert to civic-minded businessmen and, in one case, to a seven-year-old child. To warm an audience up, he may crack jokes between numbers or invite it to join him in singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Last week hard-selling Conductor Katims staged a concert titled "Composium Nineteen-Sixty," featuring works of five resident Seattle composers. Most of the works were pleasantly melodic exercises, more impressive for technique than for originality. But the concert was both a popular success and a major boost to Seattle...
...they're all wrong. The question is simply, 'Is the accused sick or not?' You can't have mental illness and criminal responsibility in the same person at the same time." From the Snake Pit. Few psychiatrists lined up behind Dr. Karpman's banner...
...city, white-collar workers donned black ties of protest. In Montevideo, Uruguay, a crowd of 100 students gathered outside the U.S. embassy shouting "Murderers," "Assassins," and shaking fists at embassy aides who looked out windows. In Pretoria, South Africa, university students marched to the U.S. embassy, raised a banner reading "American Justice Is Corrupt" (executions for capital crimes in South Africa totaled 70 in 1958). Britain's Manchester Guardian termed the execution an outrage "because capital punishment itself is an outrage, not because of the special circumstances of the Chessman case...
With civil rights out of the way. Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress trained their verbal artillery on one another in readiness for a partisan election-year battle. Republicans rallied around President Eisenhower's black-ink budget; Democrats pushed forward under the banner of welfare legislation...
...Heroes. The Theatre Guild's President Lawrence Langner thinks that scripts cater to parochial Broadway tastes, insists that the rest of the nation is not so fond of rape, reefers and sodomy. His views won front-page attention in a recent issue of Variety under the banner: FOLKS DON'T DIG THAT FREUD. And Broadway Critic John Chapman has been offering a similar warning: the theater is in atrophy, he suggests, because it has lost faith in the spirit...