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Jomo Kenyatta wore a pink rosebud in his buttonhole. Julius Nyerere was decked out in a black pajama-style suit, and Milton Obote was all smiles. Standing in the Ugandan Parliament before a carved panel that depicted crested cranes, elephants, anteaters and gazelles, the three men lifted their champagne glasses in a toast that is often heard but all too seldom practiced these days in fractious Africa. "To unity!" cried the Presidents of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda...
...release of funds donated by Americans to aid Eamon de Valera's struggle for Irish independence, in 1927 argued the last writ of habeas corpus for Sacco and Vanzetti the night of their execution, and in 1953 joined in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the electric chair; of bronchial pneumonia; in Oceanside...
...production. Miss Garson told a Newsweek reporter, 'I was unhappy when I couldn't find a corresponding scene (in Shakespeare)--then I had to write the scene myself. I'm glad I used Shakespeare; it allowed me, an inexperienced playwright, to shape things in the play." Macbeth, Hamlet and Julius Casear provide matrices for most of MacBird's episodes, and supply the better part of the linguistic embroidery. Miss Garson also draws on Othello for bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops up in MacBird's first press conference ("This land will...
...telephoning some 3,000 stockholders, joining a hastily formed committee of Racine citizens in buying up its own shares in the market. Sharon Steel Corp. boosted its annual dividend from 60? to 80? a share to help fend off a tender offer by Honolulu Industrialist George W. Murphy. Julius Garfinckel & Co., the Washington-based retail chain that controls Manhattan's Brooks Bros., last year rebuffed a tender takeover attempt by Genesco, Maxey Jarman's shoe-and-clothing combine, after two court fights and a bitter exchange of public recriminations. Most often, the best defense is to reach...
Metaphysical Anxiety. Under the firm baton of New York City Opera Director Julius Rudel, the singers projected their parts with clarity and polish while threading their way through Ming Cho Lee's surrealistic settings. Mexican Tenor Salvador Novoa eloquently voiced the pain and weakness of the Duke, and statuesque Joanna Simon, as the courtesan, sang her seduction aria in a lustrous mezzo-soprano...