Word: ning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Criss-Cross (Columbia) presents Monk in even finer fettle, playing with the same group two years later. The apprenticeship with the master has enriched everyone's technique and understanding, and Monk's reconsiderations of some of his private standards (Crepuscule with Nellie, Rhythm-a-ning) prove the immense vitality of his imagination...
...Pollster Sam Lubell, who doesn't use figures, reported that Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Pat Brown are run ning "a fifty-fifty tossup" race for Governor of California. In the East, said Lubell, President Kennedy's support of Democratic candidates for Governor is doing them little good: New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Ohio Candidate James A. Rhodes and Pennsylvania Candidate William W. Scranton (see cover) are each getting significant support from voters who backed Kennedy...
There were ugly gaps of empty seats in the vast arena, but those Republicans who made it to the fund-raising rally -- some for as much as $100 a ticket -- roared in answer to Gov. John A. Volpe's or ning challenge: "Do you want win?...of course...
...Tokyo's Sixth World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs went a 15-man Red Chinese delegation headed by veteran "Unionist" Liu Ning-yi. It was the kind of occasion suited to Peking's purposes: Japan relived its sorrowing memories on the 15th anniversary of the cloud over Hiroshima that killed more than 70,000 people in one flash. And to show Japan how lovable its big neighbor was, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai dropped in at a Swiss embassy reception in Peking to lecture hosts and guests on Red China's professed devotion...
...Starr bought a small Shanghai newspaper, built it into the Shanghai Eve ning Post & Mercury, one of the most outspoken papers in the Far East. Starr's paper opposed Japan's growing sphere of influence so vehemently that he was forced to leave Shanghai. Then the Japa nese took over the city. But American International found new fields to conquer in Latin America, eventually built a larger business there than it ever had in the Orient...