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...minor actors vary greatly in their portrayals of stock characters, but they do not dampen Anouilh's gluttonous delight in vice, comedy, and toying with an audience...
...Trouble Is . . ." Yet for all of Stokely's rabble-rousing, a band of youths similar to the "white hats" who proved so effective in Tampa and Dayton (see following story) was recruited the next day to help dampen any potential riot sparks. Dixie Hills looked as if it might avoid serious bloodshed. Shortly after dark, however, there was another brief flurry of rock throwing, and a Molotov cocktail landed at the feet of policemen patrolling the area. Almost instantaneously at least one shotgun blast was fired, killing an onlooker and injuring three others, one critically. Though police insisted that...
...years ago, German students were determined bookworms, so politically passive that many intellectuals wondered if there was much hope for democracy in a country that must look to such detached youths for its future leaders. The intellectuals are wondering no more. Instead, some are busily trying to dampen the unrest, which they regard as evidence of a West German Kulturkrankheit, a cultural sickness that amounts to a kind of spiritual measles. Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt and other Social Democratic Party chiefs are equally alarmed. Two weeks ago, they met in Bonn for more than six hours with student leaders...
...annual meetings came to order last week, news of pinched profits during the first quarter of 1967 did little to dampen the spirit of this capitalistic rite of spring. Company directors grinned and bore the usual questions about executive wages, profit sharing, charitable contributions, and cumulative stock voting. A.T. & T.'s new chairman, Haakon I. Romnes, greeted his 4,801 guests at Baltimore's Civic Center and handled the meeting with aplomb. In Detroit, Chrysler shareholders barely flinched when Chairman Lynn A. Townsend told them that first-quarter earnings had plummeted 71 % from a year earlier...
...Last summer, faced with mounting international debts, a critical gap between rising imports and diminishing exports, and growing skepticism about the value of the pound sterling, Britain's Labor government put the nation on a deflationary diet. Wages, profits and dividends were frozen; taxes were pegged high to dampen spending, and even a slight rise in unemployment was tolerated by a Labor Party that had always stood for full employment. Saddled with such restraints, Britons quickly became uncommonly economy-conscious. And they listened with uncommon attention last week when Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, with a rosebud...