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...early records would not be out of place at a funeral. More recently she has added some lighter material to create a semblance of variety, but the force of sadness in her personality is so compelling that even the wonderful and instructive lyrics of Copper Kettle somehow manage to portend a doom deeper than a jail sentence...
Many leading whites were alarmed at this drastic action. To former Chief Justice Sir Robert Tredgold, who resigned from the bench in 1960 in protest against earlier restrictive measures, the new laws portend "a police state." What chiefly worried whites was the likelihood that such harsh measures might simply force the African nationalists underground. This seemed to be precisely what Joshua Nkomo had in mind. His answer to the government was simple and brisk: "The bannings will not be accepted...
...general way the stock market reflects investors' money-backed bets-right or wrong-on the future prospects of the U.S. economy. The Commerce Department lists the stock market as a "leading indicator,'' whose rises and falls often portend coming turns in the business cycle. Over the years, the market has let out some false cries of wolf, but the record shows that its 20% drop in 1956-57 presaged one recession and the 17% sell-off in 1960 telegraphed another...
...awesome bell chorus-a ten-bell peal and a 53-bell carillon. The carillon bells will range down the scale to a twelve-ton low E-flat bell. "The reason for bells in a church tower," says Dean Sayre, "is to mark for people events in their lives which portend the turning points"-in the case of the Washington Cathedral, "the inauguration of a President, word of war or peace." The Final Gargoyle. More than $12 million has been spent to bring the cathedral to its present grandeur. At today's costs, $15 million more will be needed...
What "inertia and apathy" portend for the city-and for the whole nation-was summed up last week by the Ford Foundation's President Henry T. Heald, onetime (1952-56) chancellor of New York University, in an angry speech before New York City's United Parents Associations. "What happens in the nation's largest city makes its impact throughout the country. Educational neglect means aggravation of the conditions leading to irresponsibility and lawlessness among our youth, an increasing economic burden for social welfare, the perpetuation of islands of squalor amidst shining centers of commerce and culture...