Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally, the President heard about the white paper. He beat the Republi cans to press with a slick, green-covered, 27-page pamphlet of his own called Why Viet Nam?; naturally, it was based on a letter he had received from the mother of a serviceman. He then de cided to hold his first press conference in a month on the very day the G.O.P. paper was to appear. Outmaneuvered, the Republicans, led by Michigan's Jerry Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, hastened publication of their humbler, mimeographed effort by a day, misnumbering the pages...
...that such things can continue, Congress last week once again passed a foreign aid bill. The measure provides $3.36 billion for fiscal 1966, $100 million less than Lyndon Johnson's "preshrunk" request, but $13 million more than Congress gave last year. Few cries of "giveaway" or "rathole" were heard in the Capitol; instead the bill passed in an atmosphere of doubt, hope, disillusionment and dutiful expectation. Foreign aid still seems a stranger in the house...
...Mexico City, and when Artur Rubinstein played there in 1954, it was almost too much for one Pole in the audience. He rushed backstage, burst into Rubinstein's dressing room, and began hugging and kissing the startled pianist, exclaiming in Polish: "That was the greatest thing I ever heard!" When the kissing stopped, he introduced himself as Henryk Szeryng, a 32-year-old music teacher at the National University of Mexico. Intrigued at finding a countryman so far from home, Rubinstein inquired: "Do you play at all?" Yes, his compatriot admitted, "I love to play the violin." Rubinstein forthwith...
When Stanley turned 13, everybody in his corner of The Bronx heard about it - whether they wanted to or not. Why? His father gave him a saxophone. It was a battered, $35 hock-shop special, and Stanley honked away on it for eight hours a day until the tenement reverberated with angry cries. But whenever somebody shouted, "Shut that kid up!" his mother would shout back from the kitchen, "Play louder, Stanley! Play louder...
Last week Judge Jameson heard the case and granted Mrs. Colliflower's petition. Because she was sentenced with no chance to defend herself, said the judge, "I must conclude that there was a lack of due process under the Fifth Amendment." Mrs. Colliflower is not exempt from retrial and possible conviction, but her victory will sharply curb the power of tribal courts...