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When Mark Van Doren delivered his first lecture at Harvard last February a capacity crowd jammed the hall. They filled every seat, every inch of floor space, window ledge and platform until the man at the lectern was practically engulfed Looking somewhat bewildered by the crush of humanity Van Doren stood quietly, hand touched lightly to his chin in a characteristic gesture...
...gosh guy) tribesmen, who herd cattle in the Southern province of Ears, registered its protest by attacking Iranian police posts, killing ten officers and men. When the dissident Qashqai refused to surrender and were joined by malcontents of two other tribes, the Shah grimly ordered his air force to crush the revolt. Peeling out of the sun. his U.S.-made F-86 jets last week flashed down on the rebels with bombing and strafing runs that left an estimated 150 tribesmen sprawled dead in the plains...
...highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner I, designed for windless and weightless space, looked delicate, but when folded in the chrysalis position, it could take G forces that would crush that juicy colloid, the human body...
...Communists of Baghdad, they were still going into jails. The result was one of the biggest single Red propaganda barrages since the Reds charged the U.S. with using germ warfare in Korea. Pravda's correspondent claimed, "I saw tanks crush women and children," and reported the "physical annihilation of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Iraqi democrats and patriots.'' The Pravda man went looking for Aziz Sharif, a 1962 Lenin Peace prizewinner at the office of the Peace Partisans League (a euphemism for Red militia). A soldier on guard at the office told him. "That dog has long since...
Szell also offends players by being so devoutly musical that at times he is scantily human. When a violinist took a bone-jouncing spill down a long flight of stairs, Szell heard about it and asked in horror,' "Did he crush his fiddle?" When a visiting member of the Berlin Philharmonic expressed astonishment that Cleveland's musicians would put up with a man like Szell, a Szell man mused: "It's ironic. Over there, they have democracy. Here we have the Third Reich." To most of the players though, particularly the first-chair men. Szell...