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...Since the personnel of the orchestra is substantially the same as last season, much of Sunday's success must be attributed to Burgin's direction. He is an experienced and talented musician, so it is not too surprising that the entire orchestra--from the marvelous solo trumpet to the lowliest of the second violins--should exhibit such a high degree of discipline and responsiveness. What is surprising is the overflowing enthusiasm of the group: eighty-five musicians who like their conductor, like each other, and love to play music...
...legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting in Korea, holds open house one day each week to hear the petty gripes of his lowliest subjects...
...Bowles family joined in the comfortable, old-shoe diplomacy. They moved into a small, three-bedroom bungalow instead of the mansion-sized Embassy (mostly because the residence was being divided up into apartments for staffers). At their buffet dinner for the staff, they broke precedent by inviting the lowliest Indian employees. Mrs. Bowles, at first overwhelmed by the idea of ten servants, took to calling them by name, grimly began studying "Hindi in Thirty Days." The three Bowles children astounded New Delhi citizenry by pedaling their own bicycles to a public school held in a tent, where they...
...Supreme Court Justice William Douglas likes to climb the highest mountains and talk to the lowliest of men, preaching a vague gospel of liberalism. Two weeks ago, returning from the Himalayas and points south, he announced that the U.S. ought to recognize Communist China (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week in Seattle, he had more to say about U.S. policy in Asia...
East of the Mississippi, the weather (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) made footballs take some strange bounces. Gales, snow, sleet, rain and mud-the great levelers-made fumbling bumblers out of All-America candidates, made even the lowliest underdog look good, raised line-smashing fullbacks to an importance never intended for them in the hipper-dipper T-formation system...