Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heady tune of applause and rebel yells, Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus went before a joint session of the state legislature in the colonnaded capitol in Little Rock with the air of a man who was sure that things were going his way. He had called the legislators into special session to pass a set of carefully lawyered bills designed to grant him sweeping new powers-to close down schools threatened by mob violence or by federal troops sent to secure integration, to transfer state funds from any closed school to any new segregated private schools, to provide...
...Capitol Records' Los Angeles engineers were used to musicians, including longhairs, who loosened their collars, rolled up their sleeves and lost their tempers, but this recording session was something new. The violinist, pianist and cellist were women, and they would have been longhairs but for the fact that their hair was out of sight. Three sisters, they were also sisters of Los Angeles' congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and they had been performing together since 1931, when the youngest was five, the eldest nine. Their Capitol debut in Schubert's Trio...
...during the academic term, with no time for concerts. But last year the trio played a successful 24-concert tour (since their rules forbid them to be out at night or up after 10 p.m., they played most concerts in Catholic schools or colleges where they spent the night). Capitol's new record, frankly released "experimentally," reveals none of the Seattle-reared sisters (nees Zeyen) as a real virtuoso, but Sister Anthony, before taking the veil, played for three seasons in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one year in the 20th Century-Fox studio orchestra, and Sister Mark holds...
...Capitol Hill, Powell would rate rock bottom on any list of Congressmen's Congressman. His absenteeism is monumental (last year's roll call attendance: 46%); he is noisy, obstructionist and, above all, ineffective. Last year, for example, he insisted on tacking a civil rights clause to the much-needed $1.5 billion school construction bill. Powell knew he could never get the rider approved; he also knew that his intransigeance would kill the bill-which would have helped Harlem's schoolchildren as much as anyone in the U.S. It turned out just that...
...collection of overripe campaign fruit: the "Eisenhower Recession," the "Pentagon Mess" that saw the U.S. lag behind Russia in technological progress, the "Vicuna Coat Case" involving White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams and influence-buying Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine. But last week, about ready to head for the hustings, Capitol Hill Democrats were dismayed to find that the rush of world events had drastically cut into their ammunition supply. Items...