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...Weakly, vainly, he ordered his own brother, Dr. Robert Proust, from the room. After he died, those malevolent enemies of his life, sunlight and flowers, were admitted at last to his presence, along with a steady tide of mourners. One of these, Jean Cocteau, the poet, noting the neat pile of manuscripts on the mantel, ventured the thought that their composer was "continuing to live, like the ticking watch on the wrist of a dead soldier...
...about to sign some papers, he writes, "I experienced a strange although not alarming feeling of dizziness. Since the sensation lasted only a moment, I reached for another paper. Suddenly I became frustrated. It was difficult for me to take hold of the first paper on the pile. I found that the words on it seemed literally to run off the top of the page. Now more than a little bewildered, I dropped the pen. Failing in two or three attempts to pick it up, I decided to get to my feet, and at once found I had to catch...
...Keilholz decides plush interior is absorbing too much sound. Hall's deep-pile gold carpeting is rolled up and replaced with black vinyl. All 1,384 thick-cushioned seats on main floor are removed and replaced with 1,502 skinnier wood-back models. Rivulet-shaped panels are tacked on side walls to reflect flow of sound from stage. Hall looks like it was just given permanent wave. Total cost: $470,000. Acoustically, critics happier. Musicians too. Sound is livelier. Bass and high strengthened, echoes reduced. But visually, verdict is negative. Hall looks completely different. Blue walls now recreation-room...
Though it would obviously benefit Sparkman to keep Wallace out of the contest for U.S. Senator, Sparkman's chief lieutenant in the state senate, Bob Gilchrist, immediately declared that he would lead the opposition. To delay consideration of Wallace's amendment, Gilchrist introduced a pile of extraneous bills and pledged to discuss them all in detail. Wallace thus faced the embarrassing prospect, for a Southerner, of a filibuster on his own home ground...
...grows. Each and every day, the average American disposes of four pounds of trash-a total of 540 million Ibs. throughout the nation. "The 'effluent' society," Justice Douglas calls it. The Interior Department warns that "if trends continue unchecked, in another generation a trash pile or piece of junk will be within a stone's throw of any person standing anywhere on the American continent...