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...Choreographer Balanchine, it was the fourth premiere in an amazing nine-week stretch. The first was Square Dance, a whimsical leap between cultures. To the chamber music of Corelli and Vivaldi and the cadenced commands of Square Dance Caller Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
...Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote...
...Elisha Graves Otis, who invented the elevator, was third cousin of General Harrison Gray Otis. They both had their ups and downs...
...Reader Otis is first cousin three times removed of Inventor Elisha Graves Otis, third cousin three times removed of General Harrison Gray Otis...
...Appliance sales, down sharply so far in 1957, are climbing out of the slump. Said Whirlpool-Seeger Corp.'s president, Elisha Gray II: "We interpret the general indices as showing much improvement for the last half of the year...