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Making the point in music required a storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind against telegraph wires. The murmur and patter of the rats in the streets is sounded by cellists tapping clamped strings...
...embassy, spent an hour and a half in private conversation with the Prince over glasses of pink champagne, which neither man drank, and finally joined the dinner party, where, he reported, "the food was excellent and the lettuce the best in the world." Then he flew out to file his report from Hong Kong...
That kind of passion rings bells among rank-and-file troops across the U.S., but the Administration's first big battle is pinpointed on Capitol Hill. There, Johnson & Co. will have to explain to skeptical Congressmen precisely what they plan to do-and how. All last week Shriver and various Cabinet members trooped into sessions of a House Education and Labor subcommittee to explain the package. Since the causes of poverty are diverse and interrelated, any comprehensive attack on them is necessarily complex. The programs that the bill would permit certainly are that...
...next stage in the Massachusetts battle against Fanny Hill comes Thursday in Suffolk County Superior Court, when Judge Eugene A. Hudson's older of notice, which says he considers the book "obscene, impure, and indecent," is returnable. At Thursday's hearing Putnam's will file a formal petition stating its objection to a permanent ban on the book in the Commonweath...
Sometimes, of course, his highhanded ways enraged rank-and-file Democratic Senators. There was the time when North Dakota's Quentin Burdick and Ohio's Stephen Young, both Democrats but a bit too liberal to be members of the Johnson fan club, badly wanted two vacancies that had occurred on the Judiciary Committee. Both had applied for the places in writing. When the committee-assigning Democratic steering committee met, however, Baker appeared before it and announced that Burdick and Young had withdrawn their requests. No one questioned his word, and the seats were given to Missouri...