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...tell just how profoundly he has invaded this sphere, for several bellweathers have been struck, and it is debatable which one strikes the innermost chord of the people. It is like Mailer went on a binge at a country fair on several tests of strength, and his sledgehammer rang a merry tune. Listen to the prizes! Who can say which is the Blue Ribbon of the Vastest Common Denominator? His speculation upon the possibilities of FBI or Kennedy interests involved in her death made a hearty feast for The National Enquirer; his countersuit with one of his sources...
...staggering $300 million, of which $136 million has already been raised. The business effort is twofold?one for cultural activities, one for social and civic affairs. The leading family in both is the Daytons, five brothers who are dominant stockholders in the Dayton Hudson Corp., which last year rang up $1.4 billion in retail sales...
...conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra was napping at home one afternoon not long ago when the telephone rang. Waking him, his wife said, "The President's on the line." "The president of what?" asked Eugene Ormandy. Richard Nixon was calling to forward an invitation from the Chinese government to the orchestra of its choice-the Philadelphia. Following the lead of the Vienna and London orchestras, which have also toured China, the Philadelphia is not including any works by Russian composers. Ormandy announced last week that it is, however, preparing to play the Yellow River Concerto, a modern Chinese work...
Some 18,000 pigeons (1,000 for each year of Perón's exile) were to be released. But by the time they were set loose, the 50-acre meadow below had turned into a bloody battlefield. Volleys of shots rang out, and thousands of people fell to the ground or scrambled for shelter, screaming. When the shooting stopped, 34 Argentines lay dead and 342 were wounded. They were victims not of police or army violence but of bitter hatreds within the movement that calls itself Peronism-a polymorphous organization that encompasses old-line union chiefs, Trotskyite students...
Late one week last March, John Wesley Dean Ill's telephone rang. It was the President calling with a friendly suggestion. Why didn't he take his pretty wife to Camp David for the weekend...