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More important, perhaps, were the signs of objection to the new brand of Negro militancy that began to appear in the moderate press. When pickets from a local organization called the Joint Committee on Equal Opportunity began a prolonged sitdown demonstration in the corridor just outside Mayor Robert Wagner's office, the civil-rights-minded New York Times was sorely disturbed. "Demonstrators," said the Times, "cannot be allowed to interfere with government (city, state or national)," and the committee, "by these tactics that go beyond the bounds of legitimate picketing, is building up resistance against achievement of the just...
...this is the most!" squealed Toni Ann LeVier, 18, whipping a Lockheed TF-104G Super Starfighter through the supersonic corridor near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at twice the speed of sound. Toni, a Pasadena high school senior and very likely the world's fastest teenager, held a pace of 1,325-1,350 m.p.h., with Dad as her copilot-and Dad is Supersonic Flight Pioneer A. W. ("Tony") LeVier, 50, now Lockheed-California's director of flying operations. With another father-daughter stunt in the offing, a cross-country flight to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Toni...
...told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that U.S. delegates in Manhattan need an extra housing allowance to offset entertainment expenses. Whereupon Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa confronted Stevenson with a Satevepost article called "This is the U.N. at Play." One section dealt with "ladies of the corridor, fluffing their hair and painting their mouths" in a vice-ridden Tower of Babble where anything goes. Stevenson balked at the reference to V-girls. "That," he grinned, "is an aspect of the work with which I am not familiar...
...speed, a task that is accomplished by houses, signs and other clutter along the traditional roadside. This may be accomplished on the new freeways by angling the road for views of industrial plants, valleys, water towers, or even pieces of giant sculpture, to contrast with the "green corridor" of the countryside...
...television hour to develop either characters or unity of mood, has tailored his libretto to the limitations of the picture tube. But musically, the little opera is somewhat more successful. One aria, sung by Metropolitan Opera Soprano Judith Raskin, is lyrical and haunting; left alone in the corridor while her hus band, played by Baritone John Reardon, darts off on one of his searches, she sings I Shall Never, Never See My Home Again, the vocal highlight of the performance...