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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides being arbitrary, Dutch administration in New Guinea struck the parliamentary team as often ineffective. Fewer than half the 700,000 native inhabitants of Netherlands New Guinea live in areas "under administrative control." Even in one of the allegedly pacified zones-the Wissel Lakes region-the commission revealed that an uprising against the government and subsequent tribal warfare cost the lives of 200 Papuans and ten government troops in late 1956. At Agats sits a government post with 30 men, but its control hardly extends beyond the village limits and only 30 miles away a group of Papuans killed...
Audiences as well as performers were finally called to order by the batons of great conductors-Sir Thomas Beecham, Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner. Sir Thomas, who began conducting at Covent Garden in 1910, often whirled on the audience to snap: "Shut up!" Once, in a glow of satisfaction, he turned and said: "Not so bad for England...
Richter is most at home with Liszt and Schubert, also plays Debussy and Ravel occasionally ("They're too beautiful to play very often"). Unlike most Soviet artists, he has a wide command of contemporary Western music, e.g., Bartok, Hindemith. All told, he has a repertory of between 25 and 30 complete recital programs, plus a slew of concertos...
...There was no consistent predisposing factor (such as head injury) as some investigators have alleged. Alcohol was not important in their own lives, but had been in many cases for their fathers, often to the point of breaking up the home. CJ The difference between the homosexuals' ratio of male-female hormone output and that of normal men used for comparison was negligible...
...loudest praises-and heartiest damns-for its outspoken, Southern-liberal editorials on the region's big story: racial integration. Over the years the Daily Times has taken the most forthright stand of any major Southern daily in favor of gradual, peaceful integration under the law of the land. Often scorned as "that nigger-lovin' sheet," the Daily Times has paid a price for speaking its mind: during the past eight years, circulation has dropped by some...