Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been given a fair trial. State authorities wasted no time getting a stay order from the Court of Appeals, but technical difficulties with the necessary arrest order kept Sheppard out of prison. He thanked his lawyer, joined some relatives at a motel, and held an impromptu press conference. Calm and smiling, he said he might like to work for the Peace Corps or a clinic in India. When a reporter remarked that he looked fit, he snapped bitterly: "I understand Dreyfus looked fit when he left Devil's Island...
Died. Pierre Monteux, 89, French-born conductor whose portly figure graced virtually all the major podiums -the Boston symphony (1919-24), Amsterdam (1924-34). San Francisco (1935-52), London (from 1961 on), guest conductor of close to 100 more-a maestro with a calm, precise technique that generally brought out the best both in the musicians and music; of a brain hemorrhage following a fall; at his home near Hancock...
...then, into this atmosphere of calm, cool and collected reasoning, came word of the three missing civil rights workers in Mississippi. And in that instant the whole tone of the N.A.A.C.P. convention changed. Charles Evers, brother of Mississippi's assassinated N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, passionately demanded that the delegates stage a protest march on the Department of Justice. "Let's go," cried the delegates, and only with difficulty did their national leaders dissuade them from marching instantly...
...least 18 big-league clubs begged for his services, and Reichardt played them off against each other with clinical calm. The bidding, he announced, would start at $100,000. This was too much of "a business and financial risk" for the home-state Milwaukee Braves. But the other teams barely blinked. Kansas City Owner Charles Finley made two trips to Stevens Point in a week. The Angels flew Rick to Palm Springs in Owner Gene Autry's private plane, gave him a tour of Hollywood, brunch in Bel Air, and dinner in Studio City. The New York Mets offered...
Most top college crews have a calm, tree-edged river or lake to paddle around in, a well-appointed boathouse to change in, and money from old grads for new equipment. Not so the University of California at Berkeley. One of Coach Jim Lemmon's shells has been around for 29 years and the building his eights call home was built in 1925. His practice course? It would probably be easier to row through Times Square...