Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE (Argo). Assorted tributes on his 400th anniversary by poets, musicians and scholars on one side of the record, and on the other, brief readings from his later works by 16 leading Shakespearean actors, including excerpts from two plays now on the boards: Paul Scofield reading Lear's reconciliation with Cordelia and Sir Laurence Olivier delivering Othello's speech to the Senate...
...since the floor days of Lyndon Johnson and, for a brief while, the fitful reign of Oklahoma's late Democratic Senator Robert Kerr, has the U.S. Senate had anything close to a king. But now moving toward that position is a most unlikely person: Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, a politician of many ups and downs and backs and forths, whose only present power lever is that of leader of an underwhelming minority of 33 Republicans...
...everyone expected to hear from was mysteriously silent. Manolo Ray, leader of the JURE exile group, had promised to be inside Cuba reorganizing the anti-Castro underground by May 20, Cuba's Independence Day. On the 16th, Miami monitors picked up a brief broadcast purporting to be from Cuba: "This is Ray speaking to all Cubans from free territory." But Ray's lieutenants said it was not Ray's voice. On the 20th, there was nothing but silence from Ray's group. Was their leader in Cuba? A spokesman merely smiled...
...Brief History...
...Doty Committee begins its report with a brief history of the General Education Program at Harvard, This history ends with the following evaluation...