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...crescendo of violence, of rioting and of police repression mounted over five months until the toll was more than 70 dead. Last week alone, in the five days preceding Ayub's radio surrender, at least 38 people died in disorders in West and East Pakistan. Most of the trouble was in the East, where mob rule shook Dacca, the largest city, and army troops with automatic weapons confronted demonstrators who shrilled: "Rise! Rise!" Scores were injured by bayonets and flying lathis, the steel-tipped bamboo sticks used by the police, and attempts at curfews proved useless. But when Ayub...
...Nixons?and the Republicans?had the traditional celebrations to enjoy. At an estimated cost of $2.3 million, the highest in history (borne by the paying guests and the Washington business community), the festivities that started over the weekend with receptions, luncheons and a concert at Constitution Hall, reached a crescendo Monday night with six balls around Washington, at each of which the Nixons were to appear. G.O.P. bashes are traditionally more sedate than Democratic wingdings, but the Republicans still promised to produce hundreds of young "Nixonaires," dressed in silver-sequined miniskirts, at each of the balls. As the weekend approached...
...every issue, Haddad and Innis will debate in separate editorial columns. "As the crescendo of black-militant demands rises," writes Haddad, "it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the old-fashioned Strom Thurmond segregationist policy of 1948 and the modern Roy Innis separationist philosophy of 1968." Retorts Innis: "This society is racist and won't change." Nevertheless, the two have some grounds for agreement. "Roy and I," says Haddad, "are not such purists that we can't isolate a problem and discuss it. We can both agree, for instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They...
Beyond the old-fashioned slugging, Nixon and Humphrey reserved their heaviest efforts for television. Both sides planned a crescendo of commercials and broadcast exposure for the candidates during the last two days before the vote. The expenditure of millions for radio and TV time up to the last possible moment was probably wise tactics. It was the kind of campaign in which many voters withheld a final decision until actually confronted with the ballot...
Glamour, image and sex appeal are not his bag. At a rehearsal, he is one plain musician talking to others. He may interrupt the music to say, "Take some of that color out of the A flat," or "Make this more crescendo." But he never indulges in exhibitionism or talkfests, which often earn other conductors only the scorn of their players. At a concert, he makes few flourishes in the direction of the audience. "I have no patience," he says, "with those conductors who, though their backs are physically turned to the spectators, spiritually face the ticketholders in an expressionist...