Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offers its customers nothing more than hour after hour of phonograph records and a chance to dance where there is no room to breathe. Having such creatures as null Sagan, Porfirio Rubirosa and Yves Saint-Laurent under his electrified baton was excuse enough for the Pavlovian power Warfield felt, but like all pioneer artists, he was misunderstood in his time. Last week, for all his genius, he was fired on the implied charge that he was turning the Princesse into a laboratory for psy-chomusical research; he had become a power-crazed, prima donna player of the phonograph...
...above attempting some subversion of its own. Appealing to Moscow's East European satellites, the statement declared: "If a party cannot use its brains to think for itself, but instead is a party that parrots the words of others, runs hither and thither in response to the baton of certain persons abroad, such a party is incapable of leading the masses...
...paraded, clapping and singing, before segregated theaters. Police moved in quickly, broke up the demonstrations by arresting 257 and dispersing the rest with volleys of tear gas. In Clarksville, Tenn., 300 Negroes, including Olympic Track Star Wilma Rudolph, crowded around a segregated restaurant demanding that they be served. In Baton Rouge, 100 Negro children marched in protest against segregated public facilities. In Oklahoma City, scores of Negroes sat stubbornly for nine hours trying to buy a meal in a segregated restaurant...
...delight of the admiring audience, the Suite turned out to be a "chance" work, in which all seven players were free to find their own tempos and moods while Milhaud sat by in his wheelchair to draw them into occasional togetherness with a stiff little sweep of his baton...
...MILE RELAY. Before they took to the track at Walnut for the one-mile relay, four University of Arizona undergraduates got a gift: an autographed baton, the same one that had been carried by the U.S. Olympic relay team in 1960 when it clocked a record 3 min. 5.6 sec. Paced by Sophomore Henry Carr, who flashed through his 440-yd. leg in 45.1 sec., the Arizonans promptly ran the mile...