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George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Vern Countryman, professor of Law, both spoke at the meeting...
...Countryman noted that new immunity procedures established by the Organized Crime Control Act were being used "solely against those who dissent [against governmental policies]." He said that the government has tried tomake "a Federal indictment synonymous with guilt...
...Countryman spoke as a representative of the Civil Liberties Legal Defense Fund, which was set up three years ago to raise funds for the defense of those being tried for their antiwar activities...
...Yukio Mishima had just about run out of challenge. He had produced 20 novels, 33 plays, a travel book, more than 80 short stories, and countless essays. He was a major contender for the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature that went to his countryman. Novelist Yasunari Kawabata. He sang on the stage, produced, directed and acted in movies. Often called "Japan's Hemingway" because of his love for physical contest and the outdoor life, he lifted weights and became proficient at karate and kendo, the ancient swordfighting game once practiced by the samurai warriors. He was a perfectionist...
...Hans heard these?" Later, Grieg's wife Nina (Florence Henderson) sighs: "How do you suppose the others managed?" Replies a piano salesman played by Edward G. Robinson: "You mean Schubert and Liszt, for example?" When Grieg enters the Scandinavian Club in Rome, the clerk informs him, "A countryman of yours was asking for you." Grieg asks, "Who's that?" Replies the clerk: "Mr. Ibsen...