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...really hears him. He is the fellow in the frayed white tie and tails, the one buried seven rows back peering sourly through a cluster of elbows. He is the symphony musician - bored, frustrated and anonymous. So he didn't become the second Heifetz as everybody back in Glen Falls said he would. There was nothing else to do but join a big-city symphony, file lock-step onto the stage - no talking, please - and, at the nod of the imperious maestro, saw away mechanically at the Brahms First for the 101st time...
Lift of Spirit, Surge of Pride. Her powers of persuasion are considerable-and her speech writers are good too. To the population of Page, Ariz., assembled to witness the dedication of the 710-ft. Glen Canyon Dam, Lady Bird Johnson last week recalled "those disfigurements of rocks and trees where someone with a huge ego and tiny mind has splashed with paint or gouged with knife to let the world know that Kilroy or John Doe was here." But the beautification drive, she went on, "is a new kind of 'writing on the wall'-a kind that says...
...spectacular" movie was actually a series of slides about Glen Canyon, great orange peaks and winding paths which preserved the markings of a lost Indian civilization--until it was dammed. Dramatically, the scene shifts from the Canyon five years ago, to a huge man-made lake which today buries most of it. The same, the audience is told, is now in store for the Grand Canyon
Brown-Forman started diversifying in 1956, when it paid $20 million for the 54-bbl.-a-day Jack Daniel Distillery, which has been located in the same quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Tenn., for a hundred years. The Daniel output has, under Brown-Forman management, been doubled, though it still far from meets the demand for what some drinkers regard as the best sippin' whiskey of all. The company now sells Usher's Scotch, Bols liqueurs and imported wines as well, and Street's main job will be to look out for other likely acquisitions...
...attention in the national press. A handful people realize that the Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1961, finally gave District of Columbia residents the right to vote in Presidential elections. And many people who know nothing else about District affairs know that rioting broke out at Glen Echo amusement park on Easter Monday...