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...Yiddish for "Woe is me." Goldberg rarely has trouble cornering subjects. "When they see me come, all fear vanishes," says he. "There is first my distinguished white hair. Then my baby-blue eyes. Also, most of them are bigger than I am." This disparity in size did not dispel the suspicions of one statuesque beauty named Grace Kelly who, when Goldberg first approached her, thought he was a white slaver...
Founders of the organization hope that in addition to spreading the karate (pronounced kah-RA-tay) discipline, they will be able to dispel the mystery and misconceptions which usually envelop the sport in America. For, contrary to popular opinion, karate is not the science of breaking boards with a bare hand, does not involve any particular toughening of the hand as a weapon, and, in fact, does not consider the hand any more important than any other part of the body...
...Orator. Only when word got around that Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen was scheduled to speak did the Senate begin to fill. It was known that Dirksen, after harboring "grave doubts," had come around to approval. It was also known that in order to dispel some of the doubts about the treaty, Dirksen and Majority Leader Mansfield had asked President Kennedy to write a letter that Ev would read to the Senate. In his letter, the President offered Senate doubters "unqualified and unequivocal assurances" that the U.S. would maintain its readiness to resume testing, that it would "take all necessary...
...Ellington's band leaves this week for a 14-week tour of the Middle East-at just the season when it might be drawing its biggest audiences at home. Africa is getting two excellent chamber groups, the Dorian Quintet and the Claremont Quartet-a visit that may help dispel the notion that the U.S. considers Africa a continent of nothing but natural-born jazz lovers. Choirs from five colleges and universities and the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra are going abroad, and next spring Latin America will be treated to visits by two first-rate secular choral groups...
...most Indians. Dissatisfied with too much dependence on textiles, Mafatlal recently linked up with West Germany's Farbwerke Hoechst to build a $21 million, nine-plant petrochemical complex that will be India's largest. By bringing a much-needed new industry to India, he hopes to dispel the notion, widely held among his countrymen, that all industrialists are merely greedy. Says Mafatlal: "We can also make a useful contribution to society...