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...assault a nation based on the speculation that it might one day acquire weapons of mass destruction, why shouldn't India open fire on Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons today? Starting a war with Iraq is simple. The consequences are not. JOHN NUNES Milton, Mass...
...Hershey, the largest U.S. confectioner, is for sale. Switzerland's Nestlé would like to buy it - and leap from 7% of the U.S. market to 38%. The sale would reverse the common pattern of a beloved European firm being snapped up by a rapacious American rival. Founded by Milton Hershey in 1894, the company educated orphans and built an eponymous town; the charitable trust that owns Hershey still educates 1,200 children at a cost of $96,000 a year each. But it has decided to diversify its holdings, sparking protests from the citizens of Hershey, Pennsylvania...
...Elvis appeared several times on television variety programs hosted by Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle. During his second appearance on the Berle show, he sang "Hound Dog" and engaged in a bit of his trademark hip swiveling. The broadcast generated shock nationwide, and sparked a flurry of hysterical press...
...started out as a "race music" label, as Phillips brought into his modest studio some exemplary blues shouters and players: Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Rufus Thomas, James Cotton, Sleepy John Estes, Herman "Little Junior" Parker and the Blue Flames, Little Milton Campbell, Ike Turner (yes, Tina's future...
...rock 'n roll's wildcatting days, everybody was borrowing, stealing, learning from everyone else. "At that time," says Milton Campbell in "Sun Records: An Oral History" by John Floyd, "the trend was, whoever had a hit record out, you would try to make up some lyrics as you go along and try to sound as close to that record as possible." On the "50th Anniversary Collection" you'll hear a 1953 instrumental, Jimmy & Walter's "Easy," whose melody closely copies the 1950 Ivory Joe Hunter ballad "I Almost Lost My Mind." Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" was, as they...