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...rule of leftist President João ("Jango") Goulart, the armed forces of Latin America's biggest country finally lost patience and sent him packing (see THE HEMISPHERE). Despite the fact that this was a military coup against a constitutional regime, State Department officials made no attempt to conceal their pleasure over Jango's fall. The moment Brazil's Congress gave the new regime a legal base by naming Goulart's next-in-line to succeed him, President Lyndon Johnson extended his "warmest wishes" and hinted at quick recognition. All this was in line with...
...into the parking lot do they look up to see "who's got a new bike." Though they all look like Marlon Brando in The Wild One, they worry about their reputation as troublemakers, claim gravely: "That film did us a lot of harm." The Rockers do not conceal their disdain for the Mods. "The money we spend tripping around and going places, they spend on clothes," sniffs one. For a Rocker, clothes are strictly functional. "People don't seem to realize that a leather jacket is the warmest thing to wear when riding...
...away. They are strangers, but they understand each other quickly because they have a common latter-day heritage "that was as much a part of German culture as Goethe and Schiller." They both know how to alter passports, how to dress inconspicuously to put off the police, how to conceal a vial of poison or perhaps a razor blade as a last remedy if they should fall into the hands of the Gestapo. The man named Schwarz describes a common enough European odyssey-the flight from Germany to Paris with his wife, internment in the early months...
...Georgia's filibustering Democratic Senator Richard Russell rose to take up the cause of Muhammad Ali, more commonly known as Cassius Clay. Scarcely troubling to conceal the twinkle in his eye, Russell inveighed against a World Boxing Association move to vacate Clay's world heavyweight championship title, cited it as a prime example of the intolerance that had inspired the civil rights bill...
With Leonard Bernstein and Franco Zeffirelli making their Metropolitan Opera debut together in a new production of Verdi's Falstaff, the Met was sure of a sensation. What kind of sensation was a different matter. Bernstein, never one to conceal any possible hidden talents, had not conducted in a major opera house in nine years. Zeffirelli, whose last crack at New York was a disastrous Broadway flop (The Lady of the Camellias), had signed on as director, set designer and costumer in a house where all three jobs are notoriously difficult. But when the curtains parted last week...