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...Sometimes I wish I were a dictator ... A ruler, a strong man, a titan ... With a ruthless grasp on power and an iron grip on the helm of government ... But loved ... The law is my law the people are my people, whomever I conquer remains conquered. Premier Bernard, King Bernard, Czar Bernard ... Boy ... Then Could I meet girls...
DAVID OISTRAKH, 53, was already a legend before he briefly left Russia to conquer the U.S. in 1955. Son of a poor Jewish bookkeeper in Odessa, he started playing a one-eighth-sized violin when he was five, supported his family as a wandering fiddler after graduation from the Odessa Conservatory. With his 1935 victory in the Leningrad Concours and a 1937 victory in the first Brussels violin concours, he became the leading violinist of Russia. Western audiences were delighted by his warmth and humor: for all his success, noted a Westerner who traveled with him, he still seemed like...
M.I.T.'s basketball quintet tried hard to please a highly enthusiastic crowd last Saturday, but the boys from Tech lacked the skill to conquer the rapidly improving Harvard varsity. The final score: 62-54. Harvard...
...Burma. But some states were troubled. Nigeria's Jaja Wachuku could not accept the expulsion of Nationalist China as a "condition" for the admission of Red China, since the Nationalist government "has under it 11 million people" and is a U.S. ally, so that any attempt to conquer it could lead to a threat of war. Wachuku also noted that there was no indication that Red China even wanted to join the U.N., and suggested that Peking's "friends" ought to get an answer to this question and, at the same time, discover if Red China was willing...
...trial begins on the highest moral and forensic planes with a charge that Germany's judges, under political duress, destroyed the heritage of law that they were sworn to defend. But in short order the script stoops to conquer the attention with a long, clinically detailed and (for all legal and dramatic purposes) pointless discussion of sexual sterilization in the Third Reich. Next comes the prurient account of an episode in which an elderly Jew, accused of committing Rassenschande (race shame) with a 16-year-old "Aryan'' girl, is legally murdered by a German judge. Finally...