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...Paris in 1932 and in the U.S. only last month. Like his more prolific friend and fellow Yankee, the late Charles Ives, Ruggles writes dissonant but cogent and original music. Sun Treader is a sober, seamless, one-movement tribute to a tragic hero, for thus Browning addressed Shelley eleven years after he was drowned ("Sun-treader, life and light be thine forever!"). Performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Zoltan Rozsnyai conducting...
...January 1966, a dozen years after the U.S. Supreme Court urged "all deliberate speed" in integrating Southern schools, only one of every 13 Negro children in the eleven states of the Old Confederacy was attending a school with white students. This record of non-compliance with the court order is all the more remarkable in view of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, by which the U.S. Office of Education was empowered to withhold federal funds from segregated school districts. Some 1,500 districts in the eleven states did in fact desegregate under this prod. Last week the U.S. Civil Rights...
...court as prisoners or witnesses but not as jurors. Last month, however, a new jury commission revised the venire and added 100 Negroes to the petit jury list. As a result, a Negro teen-ager charged with killing a white policeman last week faced a 'jury of eleven Negroes and one white...
...short months, Zambia has found eleven routes around the block ade, which Rhodesia started as retaliation against Britain. British, American and Canadian airlifts are bringing in oil from ports on both the Atlantic and Indian oceans, while trains, trucks, lake boats and barges are hauling it in from as far away as Dar es Salaam (transportation costs run as high as $3.50 per gallon). Last week negotiations were under way for yet another airlift-this one from Mozambique, whose Portuguese rulers may sympathize with Prime Minister Ian Smith and his white rebels but who long ago learned to cover their...
...Eleven months before his death, he gave his 105-piece collection of modern sculpture to the state of Israel. "In this clip-clap, ragtag life," he proclaimed, "this is the most heartwarming thing I have ever done." But the loneliness of the short-distance runner still stayed with him, and to the end he never stopped competing...