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...biggest wish of all of us," Bent- is for justification of our But the wish is in vain. "By verdict own heart, no man is acquitted. He to spend days working for which will never be granted...
...rights bill, promised to "unfurl" one of his own. Morton agreed that it would be a smart move, but House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck and Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater demurred. Said Goldwater, who has a greater following in the South than any other Republican: "We have literally bent over backwards to attract the Negro vote, but they don't vote for us." Lamented one G.O.P. leader: "We've got to find a hard-core issue to fight the Democrats...
...institution." Their lengthy speeches ranged from conventionstyle rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography, the limp-wristed bent-kneed writers. . .") niks, the puerile purveyors of porno-provided by the grown-ups. George Sokolsky, a syndicated columnist who began his journalistic career as editor of a Petrograd newspaper during the Revolution received the award for journalism. Speaking quietly with emotion, he declared: "For forty years I have been observing...
...last effort to save the King's gambit, President Kennedy himself made a direct appeal by letter to Cambodia's nervous young Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Alternatively, there was talk of finding some other neutral nations to fill out the commission. But the U.S. had obviously bent about as far as it intended to. In fact, the more reliable anti-Communists of Southeast Asia were openly miffed. "The neutrals sidestep the responsibilities in the area and the really tough decisions," griped a Thai diplomat. "And then you keep inviting them back to settle everybody else's affairs...
Both her athletic bent and her theatrical temperament combine to make Swiss-Austrian Soprano Borkh one of the world's most impressive performers in two of her favorite roles-Salome and Elektra. Last week, for the first time in nine years, Strauss's Elektra returned to the Metropolitan Opera, and Soprano Borkh all but blew the house down...