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...just like roundup time in Texas. The politicos were moving in thundering herds, and vote-rustling, legitimate-like, was going on by glare of day and dark of night. The big rustle and bustle centered around the U.S. Senate seat that Democrat Price Daniel left when he took over as governor this year (TIME, Jan. 28), and with election day less than a month away, 24 eager politicians were running...
...crystal chandeliers. Then the visitors left and silently clustered about loudspeakers outside; inside the vast empty house, La Scala's 120-man orchestra played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica for its old master. Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television arc-lamps in Milan's great Gothic cathedral. After Mass, Victor de Sabata, now principal conductor at La Scala, led the Cathedral and La Scala choirs in Verdi's magnificent Requiem; it is rarely heard in church because it is considered too theatrical, but Italians knew that...
...individually air conditioned, the hollow building is designed to be cool on its own. It is one room deep all around for through ventilation, with a veranda-corridor rimming the interior court. The roof is a wooden parasol. Jalousies with mahogany slats protect the windows from noonday heat and glare. The entire mahogany structure literally comes...
Georgia's Richard Russell, wearing dark glasses against the glare of television lights, led off for the tough-but-responsible Democrats. He was, he drawled, a "little confused" about how the Administration planned to set up its program for economic aid to the Middle East. Dulles explained that as soon as the Eisenhower proposals are approved by Congress, a fact-finding commission, led by South Carolina's James Richards, former Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will depart for the area to draw up a bill of recommendations...
...Glare Reducer. A plastic coating that can be rolled, sprayed or brushed onto windows to reduce glare and heat from sun rays was put on the market by Manhattan's Everseal Manufacturing Co. Sold in pale blue or green tints, the washable glare reducer is primarily designed for factories, to reduce worker eyestrain, and for warehouse windows, to protect stored goods from fading and heat damage. Price: $9.70 per gal. (enough to cover...