Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding out for as much autonomy for Katanga as he could wangle. On Washington's orders, more pressure on Tshombe was applied in Brussels, administrative headquarters of the rich Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which provides Tshombe with most of his revenue. Said a State Department official: "We hope to work something out." By now, Moscow was getting back into the act. When U.S. Air Force planes flew live cattle, food and engineering equipment to help towns along a flooded stretch...
Pursuit of Perfection. Arturo Toscanini first proclaimed I Musici "Number One" when the orchestra was founded in Rome nine years ago, and I Musici has held on to the title ever since. Repeated winners of France's cherished Grand Prix du Disque, I Musici has made 34 records, sold a phenomenal 300,000 copies. Its best seller: Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In its pursuit of perfection, the group takes four full days to record a 4O-min. LP. The result is a luxurious, butter-smooth string tone, an artful blending of the orchestra's twelve instruments...
...Gaulle, thinks Sartre, is a "Great Sorcerer" who will be swept away by civil war: "We'll have to fight or rot." Violence, Sartre suggests in a highly du bious prophecy, may cauterize and cleanse. In the meantime, he warns: "France in the past was the name of a country; let us take heed that it does not become the name of a neurosis...
...question is hardly big money in Manhattan's public relations world, and that a great many Americans are pro-Katanga without any help from political pressagents.) Chief culprits in the whole mess, said Rowan, were the big Belgian-run mining complex, Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, and "financial interests" bent on maintaining Katanga as their "safe little kingdom...
Ironically, at the time that the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past appeared, Hahn was far better known than his friend Proust. The only son of wealthy parents, he published his first songs at 14. his first opera. L'lle du Réve, at 23. After that, he alternated between opera and ballet. Hahn met Proust when he was 17 (Proust was four years older); later, when his friend was living as a semi-recluse in a cork-lined room, Hahn often played the piano for him. Hahn advised the author on the technical passages about music...