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Died. A. (for Abraham) J. (for Joseph) Balaban, 73, Midwest impresario of the 1920s movie-palace era who operated on the idea that theaters should be "a thing of beauty, a fairyland," and with his elder brother Barney, later president of Paramount Pictures, built a 100-theater chain (now merged with Paramount) featuring Arabian Nights decor, corps of military ushers, and the rumble of mighty Wurlitzers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...this country moving again." The phrase became Kennedy's battle cry-and it had an awful lot to do with his victory over Republican Richard Nixon. But by one of the great ironies of U.S. politics, "Let's get America moving again" is once more a paramount issue, two years after the Seattle speech and two months before the 1962 congressional elections. The question is: Whose issue is it? Disillusion. In 1962, the cold war is still cold-a wall exists in Berlin where there was none before; a shadow war, in which the U.S. is deeply involved...
...robes and conical straw hats, hard-riding Basuto tribesmen last week poured into their hilltop capital of Maseru. The joyous occasion: the royal marriage in the Roman Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of Victories between a serene young student named Tabitha Masentle Mojela and Basutoland's Paramount Chief, Oxford-educated Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who ascended the throne of the British protectorate in 1960 after a tough fight with his stepmother, who had acted as regent for 20 years...
Meany went out of his way to attack compulsory arbitration. "The only ground for compulsory arbitration is when the paramount public interest is involved," he said. "If that's the case," he went on, purposely exaggerating his point to show his complete contempt for the practice, "then the Government ought to go all the way and nationalize the industry. If the railroads are so important to the nation that the Government can't permit a strike, then the Government should take over the railroads...
...more than 15 months, top man on the South African police wanted list has been a black underground leader named Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Son of the paramount chief of the Tembu tribe...