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Across the whole valley, the federal presence has created the most economically and racially stable section of Alabama. A few months ago, for example, Huntsville desegregated its eating places with hardly a segregationist howl to be heard...
...condemns in others the vices it refuses to acknowledge in itself. Lulu's actual death is horrifying; she is disemboweled by Jack the Ripper in a London garret. At this event, Berg's music erupts in an agonizing holocaust of atonal sound, the musical equivalent of the howl of the blinded Oedipus...
...Wrist Compass. At 47, Old Smoke was cut down by an untimely stroke after serving as a Congressman, but the years that followed did little to still Saratoga's effervescence. A new generation steamed up on the New York Central to howl over the time Ella Widener threw an egg at a night-court judge and the day Liz Whitney arrived at the track straight from a nightclub, wearing a ball gown and leading a small pack of dogs. Or the time Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt sent so sorry a horse to the post that he sympathetically gave the jockey...
...economy tickets to London that now sell for $270, Trippe would offer the ride for $160 on planes with the same amount of leg room but no meals or hard drinks. The government-owned European airlines, many of them losing money on the run, are expected to howl, but Trippe argues that they would actually increase profits by packing in passengers where galleys used to be. On a Boeing 707, thrift class would carry up to 189 passengers, v. 125 for mixed first and economy class...
...Bearded Beatnik Poet Allen (Howl) Ginsberg came briefly to rest in South Viet Nam, to investigate the crisis between the government and the rebellious Buddhists (see South Viet Nam). The saffron-robed monks at first thought Ginsberg either a "spy or madman" but after attending a poetry reading one enthusiastic monk told him: "You are an enlightened one. Maybe all the people in the world are asleep except you. You are awake." Awakened, Ginsberg almost immediately left South Viet Nam, commenting, "This place depresses me." >Guinea's President Sekou Toure, on the way home from the Pan-African summit...