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...Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Nazi Germany's chief of military intelligence until 1944. On the scent of sensational revelations, Irving and the British publishers William Collins Sons deposited $120,000 in a West German bank for the privilege of examining a twelve-page extract from the typewritten documents, which bore a signature that was allegedly Canaris'. When tested by a London laboratory, the signature proved to have been written with a ball point pen, an instrument that came into use in Germany after Canaris was executed on Hitler's orders...
...Lyons they burned tires. In Montpellier they solemnly bore empty coffins through the streets. And in Paris last week, more than 2,000 high-spirited students marched down the Champs-Elysées, shattering traffic lights with rocks. As the mob charged toward the National Assembly, black-uniformed riot police armed with plastic shields, bullet-less carbines and tear gas panicked and began forcing the demonstrators back with truncheons. Undeterred, 8,000 medical students later staged a sit-in while others blocked traffic, tore up construction material and smashed a police bus. With such skirmishes continuing throughout the week...
...such revolutionary works as Concerto Barocco (1941) and The Four Temperaments (1946), Balanchine reveled in the joy of pure movement, unencumbered by sets, costumes or plot. "Swan Lake is a bore," he declared. For Balanchine, dance was really about motion, not the Wilis; the choreographer's intent, he felt, should be made explicit without panoply or program notes. "The curtain should just go up," he said, "and if the spectators understand what's going on, it's good...
While Washington pledged to bring Chicago together, visiting Black leaders bore differing conclusions over the stability of the traditional national Democratic coalition of Black and white interests in light of Chicago's election...
...night this reviewer saw The Marriage the children in the audience enjoyed themselves immensely, rarely turning to adults for an explanation of a joke. And although The Marriage makes no pretensions to be more than a simple comedy, it won't bore those who have graduated from fairy tale. The play is genuinely funny; the humor never drags, and only one or two bad puns seem more deserving of a groan than a laugh. There may be much to explain, but there's plenty to enjoy...