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After surviving two days of this sort of campaigning, Wallace retired to Alabama. There he told a Chamber of Commerce meeting: "The people in that area feel and think just as we do in Alabama." They figured George ought to know; he was there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Invader | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...lower house of Parliament) by angry Congress Party members for asking: "Is it democratic for an ailing Prime Minister with a shaky, inaudible voice and trembling feet to reply to questions?" Through the uproar, a waxen, drowsy figure sat hunched over on the front row of the horseshoe-shaped chamber; about the only thing reminiscent of the dynamic Nehru of old was the red rose in his white tunic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Vacuum of Leadership | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...COLOMBIA: In elections to fill half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies, an old, deposed dictator pulled off a disturbing ballot-box coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: Surprises All Over | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...content of these courses. Those in literature, he says, should not be surveys of everything from Gregorian to twelve-tone music, but should deal with a more specific group of compositions, emphasizing listening assignments rather than a textbook. Listening courses should study the sonorities of instruments, the texture of chamber music, and composers' individual peculiarities of style, and should stress the difference between program and non-program music. Woodworth also applies some of James Conant's ideas in pleading for more and better music teachers...

Author: By John A. Rice, | Title: 'World of Music': Mostly Trivia | 3/26/1964 | See Source »

...N.A.A.C.P. spokesman accused Eisenstadt of "racism" and attacked his record on the School Committee. However, the Junior Chamber of Commerce cited Eisenstadt as a "messiah" in racial disputes. The nine other winners included Jay B. Angevine, associate in Anatomy, and Douglas L. Bailey of the Haravrd Center for International Affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rights Group Pickets Boston Harvard Club | 3/23/1964 | See Source »

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