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...Russian presence in the Mediterranean was forcefully reaffirmed in 1770 when Admiral Orlov defeated the Turkish fleet at Tchesme. Later the Russians made a series of amphibious landings on the Ionian islands and even captured Corfu in 1799. "No, we are not guests in this sea," crowed Izvestia. "Many glorious victories of our people are connected with it." (Izvestia conveniently forgets, of course, that soon afterward the Russians gave up Corfu and were bottled up behind the Bosporus by the Crimean War.) The U.S. is equally insistent on its Mediterranean rights, which date back to Stephen Decatur's arrival...
...priced male chorus line of all time: Sammy Davis Jr., Rock Hudson, Jack Lemmon, Greg Morris, Joe Namath, David Niven and Don Rickles. "At the finish," reported Women's Chairman Rosalind Russell, "people were crying, throwing their programs in the air, standing in ovation. The whole thing was glorious...
...Metropolitan Opera is first and foremost a singers' house, or what the managers on 57th Street like to call a bella voce theater. Its basic operating premise is that what counts is glorious singing. The only trouble is that no amount of fine vocalizing will make an opera like Otello or Wozzeck work without a steady, compelling baton on the podium. Yet it is difficult to get, let alone keep, good conductors in a house where singing stars have virtual veto power over their maestros. As a result, good conducting has been almost as elusive...
...VERY high number of the autobiographies express a driving interest in ecological issues-such as preservation of what glorious landscapes remain in the U. S. and issues of abortion reform and population control. One graduate expressed a strong belief in the concerns of Women's Liberation. Wrote Charles Hartshorne: "Racism continues to be a dismal scandal, and so does the failure of people to realize the full meaning of technology for the possible and, on valid grounds, desirable, emancipation of women from the socially assigned restriction to being mere wives and mothers... We white men have got to outgrow...
...still five months off, but the selling of the candidates is already well under way. In the old imperial capital of Hue last week, President Nguyen Van Thieu stood at smiling attention in a packed reviewing stand as he presided over a parade celebrating South Viet Nam's "glorious victory" in Laos. In Saigon, meanwhile, his Vice President and chief rival, Nguyen Cao Ky, was putting on a show of his own. "You ask why we did not have a victory parade after our successful campaign in Cambodia last year?" he chortled during a talk at a welfare workers...