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Died. Hans Kohn, 79, prolific Prague-born historian; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Author of some 30 books, Kohn warned that nationalism, if not peacefully channeled, results in totalitarianism and dictatorship. As a lecturer at Harvard and at Smith College, Kohn struggled "to get people excited over the right things. People need excitement, so they turn to Marilyn Monroe. Or they turn to storm troopers or to Stakhanovism, and these we must object...
Most white students were cautious but resigned. "We have to put up with it," said Tommy Miller, a white ninth-grader at the formerly all-black N. D. Taylor High School. Nor were all the blacks enthusiastic about the change. "I would still rather be at Taylor," said Wallace Kohn, a black senior at the city high school. "I had my privileges there." But both blacks and whites seemed determined to make the best of the situation. "There were too many colored kids," said Ninth-Grader Denise Richards after her first day at Taylor. "I'm going...
...performance that combines operatic grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the close of the Agnus Dei. The four first-class soloists (Maria Stader, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into the musical architecture. The vocal texture of the Munich Bach Choir is glowingly transparent, despite its 90-odd members, even in the tumultuous contrapuntal sections...
...N.A.A.C.P. "Assuring equal employment opportunity cannot be made the exclusive business of government, and one would think that businessmen would insist upon a major role for business also." Some retailers were less enthusiastic. "This type of action should not fall into the private sector," said Martin B. Kohn, chairman of Baltimore's Hochschild, Kohn & Co. and president of the National Retail Merchants Association...
...Kohn thus saw the situation differently from convention Speaker Lazarus, president of F. & R. Lazarus & Co. of Columbus, Ohio, and one of the famed Lazarus family that controls giant Federated Department Stores. Lazarus reminded fellow merchants that one-third of all U.S. unemployed are in the 20 largest metropolitan areas where the biggest U.S. department stores also happen to be based. "They are not at the level of everybody else," he said of this hard core. "That is why, in many cases, they are unemployed. So we have got to say we will hire them; that we will literally create...