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...Pawn? The explosion in Commons could hardly have been louder. From the Labor benches came angry howls of "Resign . . . resign." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, whose Laborites have long insisted that Blue Streak should not have been undertaken in the first place, was on his feet demanding an immediate investigation; when he was refused, he promised to force a vote of censure after the Easter recess. Tory backbenchers were shocked. It was, said Conservative F. W. Farey-Jones, a "calamitous" move, and one that would put Britain's proud science "in pawn to the U.S. for the next...
...about 3 o'clock, Pilot Ed Laparle, 57, checked on the radio with Indianapolis Control Center, signed off with an all's well. Fifteen minutes later, a farmer in the Ohio River town of Tell City, Ind. heard "popping sounds, like shotgun shells or a little louder." Looking up, he saw the Electra break in two pieces, the right wing looping off in one direction, the rest of the plane plunging toward a soybean field. As the plane smashed into the ground, another explosion ripped it apart, flinging debris and pieces of bodies for hundreds of yards...
...green hills of Rhodesia. But the message needed no translation: when Drummer Carlos ("Potato") Valdes started slapping the taut "talking" drums in a syncopated rhythm, eyes rolled, lips moved, bodies swayed in time to the beat. Had the air been a little bluer and the babble a little louder, it might be any weekend night back at Manhattan's Village Vanguard...
...secluded American Academy. In a setting that might have inspired Horace, the yellow-walled palazzo sits serenely atop the Janiculum hill, Rome's highest, where the eye is on a level with St. Peter's dome, and a languid fountain dripping in the courtyard is louder than the city's raucous Vespas. If the place is out of this world, the effect jolts men to hard, realistic work. "I know I'll never get another chance like this in my life," says one sweaty sculptor. Adds a painter: "For me, coming here was like a kick...
...divided by prejudice-by the sniffiness and anti-Catholicism in an English-speaking family, by the rigidity and fear of worldly ways in a French-speaking one. For a while the play dribbled along in terms of trivial snags and snubs and slurs; then Playwright Joudry took to sounding louder and darker chords: tempers boiled over, a violin-playing hand was broken, the young girl in one house had a troubled love affair, a small boy was drowned...