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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steve Allen will host the series of summertime music festivals, with "Casals in Puerto Rico" coming first. Ninety-two-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals conducts Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D Major ("The Prague") and Brahms' Concerto in A Minor for violin, cello and orchestra, with Yehudi Menuhin and Leslie Parvas...
...reporters honestly wanted to know what intellectual communities think about Viet Nam, race relations and other maddening matters, they'd do better to interview museum curators, NASA officials, or the ladies of the local conservationists' league. Heaven only knows what constitutes a genuine, worth-listening-to intellectual, but heaven does know that it takes more than one semester on the dean's list and one ride in a paddy wagon...
...worked days in an insurance office while attending, at night, the University of Minnesota and then the St. Paul College of Law, from which he graduated magna cum laude. "We had enough to eat and enough to wear," says a younger brother, Paul. "But I suppose we'd be considered deprived today...
After so many costly failures to gain Ap Bia's summit, some U.S. soldiers were dispirited. "There were lots of people in Bravo company [which had borne the brunt of the casualties] who were going to refuse to go up again," one soldier said. "There'd been low morale, but never before so low-because we felt it was all so senseless." Two other battalions from the 101st and a battalion from the Vietnamese 1st Division were brought up as reinforcements. On May 18, two battalions-all of their men loaded down with 40 magazines of rifle ammunition...
...military sense, he explained, because it would have given the Communists control of the high ground. "It's a myth that if we don't do anything, nothing will happen to us. It's not true. If we did pull back and were quiet, they'd kill us in the night." Zais said that he had received no orders to keep casualties* down. Could he not have ordered B-52 strikes against the hill, rather than committing his paratroopers? The general said "absolutely not"-air power could not possibly have done...