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Patriotism, coupled with the fever of anti-communist sentiments and the desire to find communist sympathizers at every turn, reached a new high...
DIED. OTIS BLACKWELL, 70, pioneer rock-'n'-roll tunesmith; of an apparent heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. He wrote songs that helped define the careers of Elvis Presley (Don't Be Cruel, All Shook Up), Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls of Fire), Peggy Lee (Fever) and James Taylor (Handy Man). A modest man who never met most of the singers made famous by his songs and one of the few black composers of the proto-pop era, Blackwell blended country with rhythm and blues to make music the world still sings...
...demand for reform of Arafat's apparatus has been strongest among Palestinians themselves, and it has reached fever pitch amid the devastation left by Israel's "Operation Defensive Shield." The extent to which that demand has been echoed by the Bush administration, the Europeans and the key Arab League states has forced Arafat to respond by promising major, if undefined changes. And the fact that so much of the PA's infrastructure has been destroyed in the course of recent Israeli military actions makes changes unavoidable, since much of the PA has now to be rebuilt from the ground...
...provided hits for such performers as Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Billy Joel; in Nashville. Among his greatest songs were rock 'n' roll classics like Presley's All Shook Up and Don't Be Cruel, Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire and Peggy Lee's signature Fever. DIED. ANTOINE RIBOUD, 83, founder of Danone, one of the world's largest food manufacturing groups; in Paris. The maverick businessman began his career at his family's glass company before switching his sights to food. Riboud ran Danone, which now has $12.7 billion in sales, until late...
FRIDAY, DAY 7: The fever has broken. I awaken, for the first time, without instinctively looking at the silenced television. This is only partly because nothing decent airs on Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...