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Only at a Tampa meeting attended by 4,000 members of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce did the President give one of his better performances, gently but effectively chiding businessmen for opposing his fiscal and economic policies...
...said, "is busy organizing herself. It takes a little longer, you know, but then she looks so much better than we do." And indeed she looked lovely when, wearing a pink wool suit and pillbox hat, she joined her husband at a breakfast sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce...
Those Aching Arms. No one who ever saw him as Senate leader could ever forget it. He seemed to be everywhere -in the chamber, the cloakrooms, the caucuses and the corridors-cajoling, persuading, convincing and sometimes threatening. A fellow Senate Democrat once explained Johnson's techniques in relatively benign terms: "The secret is, Lyndon gives and takes. If you go along with him, he gives you a little here and there-a dam, or support for a bill." But a good many Senators can testify that when such conciliation failed, they had their arms twisted almost permanently...
This carefully tooled engine of mu sic is the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, a group of 22 young, well-tempered muzykanly currently touring the U.S. with a rich repertory that runs from Bach to Bartok. At the wheel is Conductor Rudolf Barshai, 39, a trim violist who organized the group in 1955 at the Moscow Conservatory...
Cast Iron & Silver. Bored with string quartets and big orchestras, Barshai set out to build an 18th century chamber orchestra that he hoped would do justice to the "more profound" composers-Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart. He found plenty of recruits eager to put up with his tough discipline. To achieve its tight togetherness, the group practices six days a week, eleven months a year. And the work is all the tougher because Barshai insists that all the instruments (save the harpsichord and cellos) be played from a standing position, just as in Bach...