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...Groschen. The festival is the fruition of a decades-old urge of Karajan's to present Wagner's great cycle with absolute control over all the elements-a Ring that he could wrap around his little finger. His home town of Salzburg was the obvious setting, with its magnificent Festspielhaus. But Karajan was unwilling to ask the Austrian government for a single groschen of the customary state financial support; his official relations have been strained since 1964, when he quit as director of the Vienna State Opera because of "bureaucratic interference...
...matters, primarily through the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Howe's energies in recent years had been concentrated on civil rights problems. The scholarly analyst of the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution was also a founder of the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee, which sought to bring to fruition the paper rights granted by those amendments. In the summer of 1965 Howe spent his vacation in Mississippi trying civil rights cases for the Committee...
...Yellow Rolls-Royce. The inauguration of the ADB took place one week after the start of the first Asian Inter national Trade Fair in Bangkok. Set up by the Thais, but nursed to fruition by the same Bangkok-based U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that inspired the formation of the ADB, the fair opened with Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej releasing 2,509 pigeons - one for each year of the Buddhist era. The King then joined his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, for a swing through 250 acres of fairgrounds in a yellow Rolls-Royce...
...housing dilemma. Specific results from them have not been announced, though it is known that the possibility of the universities' sponsoring non-university housing projects was under discussion. The question is how far both Harvard and M.I.T. will go in seeing these and other necessary housing proposals to fruition...
...simply a reaction to British colonialism, but rather is an outgrowth of it. Summarizing his thesis, Ahmah says "that the seeds of Pan-Africanism can be found in Britain's imperial ideology, and that it is through the working out of the (British) ideology that Pan-Africanism came to fruition...