Word: crescendos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board of Education of the nation's largest and sickest school system last week was awash in a mire of corruption and politics. New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, running for reelection, needed a show of indignant action to drown out the crescendo of scandals in school construction that took place under the nine-man board (which he appointed). He set about dumping the board, and five agreed to go. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, aroused by the school mess (and bucking for Wagner's Republican opponent, State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz), called on the legislature...
...just background music: it has become one of the top draws in Vegas. Currently at the Sahara, Mary Kaye & Co. will earn about a quarter of a million dollars in a 22-week stand this season. Also, they perform at San Francisco's Fairmont and Los Angeles' Crescendo, and have cut 14 LP albums...
...concert tours (notably with Mort Sahl) have been unvaryingly successful; their most recent LP album has been on Billboard's bestseller chart for 15 weeks; they are worth $3,000 to $5,000 a week at the big blue grottoes like Basin Street East or Los Angeles' Crescendo. But they prefer to perform before college students in the afternoon. "There are no illusions in daylight," says Dr. Gottlieb. "It eliminates all show business gimcrackery and focuses attention on the music...
...final night's telecast, Castro himself, decked out in beret, cigar and low-slung .45, strode onstage for the finale. As the chorus of "to the wall" reached a crescendo, he harangued the prisoners for 3½ hours, crying "If the people of Cuba want a Communist regime, who has the right to deny it to them?" Then he grandly announced that he would "try to persuade" the government to spare their lives-all except those identified with Batista. The prisoners, by now dizzy from denunciation, clapped and cheered...
...There was great sympathy in the United States for the proclaimed goals of the Cuban revolution," Stevenson went on. "But in the course of 1959, Castro began the anti-American, anti-United States campaign that in recent months has risen to so strident a crescendo." Stevenson concentrated his appeal on the Latin American diplomats present: "We must not forget that Dr. Roa has described President Frondizi of Argentina in terms so revolting that I will not repeat them.* The official Cuban radio has poured shrill invectives on governments and leaders throughout the hemisphere, and the more democratic and progressive...