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...what looked like a New Frontier version of the Queen's List, the White House announced the names of 31 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest peacetime U.S. civilian honor, awarded to only 24 persons since 1945. Hidden away among such names as Ralph Bunche, Pablo Casals, Felix Frankfurter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Meany and Thornton Wilder were a few less well-known, though no less deserving. Among them: Genevieve Caulfield, 73, "a one-woman Peace Corps," blind since birth, who has founded and tirelessly run a much-needed school for the blind, first...
...their subtle art. In control rooms off the dance floor, they preside over the music, nimbly switching from turntable to turntable to spin new records. Some discothèques allow their patrons to suggest tunes to the disquaire, but at many such an impertinence would be unthinkable-like asking Pablo Casals to play Melancholy Baby...
...Santo Domingo, Cellist Pablo Casals, 86-whose Ministry of State is music-resumed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic, conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a festival concert before an overflow crowd in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Under the Trujillo dictatorship, said Casals, such a visit would have been impossible, but "I am proud to come to this country that has obtained its liberty." Leading a tumultuous final ovation were Dominican President Juan Bosch, 53, and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 65, who arranged the appearance as a "spiritual gift" to the Dominican...
...Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...
...this gives promise of, nothing more than a predictable tapestry of hairbreadth hurry and Navy derring-do, suitable for eventual framing in Hollywood. But like many another literary ship before her, the San Pablo offers a readymade image of a larger society. Both as a licensed literary microcosm and a U.S. naval vessel, she soon turns out to be far from regulation...