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...House Democrats felt any particu lar enthusiasm for the bill, and Republi cans were determined to make it a party-line issue. Plainly, the Administration needed every vote it could get. As debate began, White House Aides Larry O'Brien, Henry Hall Wilson Jr. and Richard Dona hue stationed themselves conspicuously outside the House chamber. Their message to buttonholed Democrats: "The Presi dent really needs this one." When a Mid west Democrat seemed to be faltering, he got a sudden succession of calls from the White House. "My God," he said later, "I never got such attention before...
...local bar. Visitors to Jimmy's overstuffed Madrid apartment are impressed by his fur-lined easy chair, stupefied by the flowers that are banked everywhere, even in the bathroom, and often intimidated by his bad-tempered chow dog and five enthusiastic great Danes. Jaime's mother, Dona Blanca de Aragón, outdoes him by keeping 53 dogs and 26 cats in the family palace...
...knew of his affair with the bad-tempered Queen, for it was the talk of Europe. And there was also the rumor that Godoy had already been secretly married to another of his mistresses, Dona Josefa Tudo, known in the streets as Pepita, the flirtatious daughter of a penniless artillery officer. At public dinners Godoy scandalized even Madrid's jaded courtiers by forcing his wife to sit next to his mistress...
...Lexington Choral Society, supported by the Festival Orchestra, devoted its concert, under the direction of Allen Lannom, to two major works: Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, and Orff's Carmina Burana. Acting on his premonition of World War II, Vaughan Williams wrote his cantata in 1936, in which he fashioned his text from a phrase of the Roman Mass, sizable excerpts from Walt Whitman (who is full of superlative choral texts), and bits from John Bright and the Bible. Composed with a knowing hand, it lacked only vitality in performance...
...first vacation of her life. Teacher Mejia was visiting her country's capital, Bogotá, for the first time. Officials had called her for the compelling reason that Colombia is 43% illiterate and sadly in need of more schools, as well as of citizens who care. Would Dona Eladia tell the people how she does it? "To talk about oneself is naughty as well as unpedagogical," said she. Then she went on TV, and in a 15-minute interview with Colombia's school-building boss, did more for the cause than a dozen government proclamations...