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Barred from their regular chamber by the army, the Deputies assembled on rows of wicker chairs in El-Azm's rambling Damascus mansion, voted to restore the liberal 1950 constitution with a few amendments. Their 156-10-1 choice for Premier was big (6 ft.), bespectacled El-Azm. Convinced that Parliament would steer an even course, the army quietly assented to the changes...
Casting about for a regal type for a walk-on part in the film version of the famed Swedish fairy tale The Wonderful Adventures oj Nils, the producers gave the royal palace a "call. The scene required a noble-looking gentleman to walk through his chamber onto a balcony and peer at a flock of wild geese flying overhead, astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden...
...will Mariner pass close to Venus. But along the way it will conduct four experiments that are expected to tell scientists much about the conditions in interplanetary space. A magnetometer in the 447-lb. spacecraft will measure the magnetic fields of space and Venus. An ionization chamber and a group of three Geiger-Miiller tubes will measure the number and intensity of such high-energy particles as protons, electrons and the nuclei of atoms, in an effort to gather more knowledge about the hazards of manned space flights. One instrument will determine the flow and density of the charged particles...
...showdown, spectators filled the galleries, and some 100 senatorial aides lined the walls of the chamber. Mike Mansfield, his soft voice now rough with anger, set forth a final plea that was made more compelling by the fact that Morse & Co. were holding up the satellite bill even while two Russian cosmonauts were swirling about in space. "Will the Senate continue to dawdle?" asked Mansfield. "To decide for cloture is to decide honorably and reasonably to settle this issue one way or another and get on with the business of the Senate. The Senate owes the country a decision...
After the intermission, a smaller group--the Summer School Chamber Singers--sang six Elizabethan Madrigals. The change from the Hindemith was striking, and quite effective. The blending between the different voice parts, and between the voices and the instrumental ensemble that accompanied several of the madrigals, was superb...