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...Democrat George McGovern faced certain defeat in the Senate on the amendment that he and Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield had sponsored to force the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Viet Nam by the end of 1971, he assailed his colleagues in brutally personal terms. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," he charged. "This chamber reeks of blood...
...ideas. He served as editor, wrote most of the early articles, and liberally sprinkled the magazine with the Rube Goldberg-esque diagrams that he made for his machines. But within a year of its founding, he sold it. He had an idea for a rifle with a revolving chamber and foolishly sold it to Samuel Colt of Hartford for $100. In 1849, Porter tried to promote his old St. Helena airship as a safe way to fly gold rushers to California in three days. The years passed. No one would listen; he was ahead of his time, a crackpot...
...York debut showed that the conducting ranks can well profit by Fleisher's misfortune as a pianist. He had all the right instincts, and plenty of natural talent to communicate them. Leading the New York Chamber Orchestra in a program of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, he demonstrated a smooth, supple rhythmic sense and ideas about the music that were definitely his own. As New York Times Music Critic Harold Schonberg put it: "Some conductors have worked for years on less...
ITALY. Until last year, Italian women were subject to a year in prison for adultery, while a man risked no jail term at all for the same offense. In Italy, the male still has complete control over family matters, even after his death. There is no divorce (though the Chamber of Deputies may well approve a bill making it legal some time this fall), no legal abortion, and a wife with children must have her husband's permission to get a passport. Last February in Rome, the small, left-of-center Republican Party organized a series of eight weekly...
Approving fan mail poured in, but Charley was soon caught in a stampede of sacred cows. He got blamed when the station manager was dropped from the Rotary Club and when the Chamber of Commerce accused WJXT of "trying to keep Jacksonville from developing." Employees of one embattled company made explicit threats on his life. He began to worry when the station's ad director sarcastically offered him a list of WJXT's customers "so I could hit them systematically instead of one by one." The herd kept pressing, and several weeks ago Thompson was fired for doing...