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...teacher running a spelling bee; posing questions in rhythm and harmony, she would close her eyes to listen for the answers on bass and drums. Often she seemed concerned with cliches. But somehow, when her fingers sounded the familiar oo-bla-dee and ba-ree-bop, the old phrases rang like new coinage. Which was only right, since Mary Lou minted them first. In the old days when she played "zombie music" and early bop, her style was constantly in transition, constantly a skip ahead of jazz. Now, "playing in the tradition" is a high ideology with...
...speak softly. "It is an honor to participate in this Law School Forum at a great university," he intoned slowly. Then his voice began to rise, to speed up, and soon he was hurtling through his speech, ignoring punctuation, and catching breath as he needed it. A bell rang behind him in Rindge Tech, his glasses slid down his nose, but the man continued to talk strenuously about what he knows and knows well--the city of Chicago...
There was a notable lack of enthusiasm for Johnson's proposals. Curiously, complaints over the housing message, voiced by New Jersey's Congressman William Widnall, ranking G.O.P. member of the Special Housing Subcommittee, rang like those of a dissident liberal. Said Widnall: "The Administration seems more interested in insuring the vacation home of the redeveloper than in insuring any home for the person who needs it." As for the agriculture message, Farm Bureau President Charles Shuman totted it up and concluded: "It is a collection of all the discredited Government supply management proposals that already have been rejected...
...never-ending influx of capital from less fortunate lands, Switzerland has long sat rich and contented in the heart of Europe. Switzerland's economic life, in fact, has ticked along for years with the precision and balance of a fine Swiss clock. Last week the alarm rang loudly, waking the Swiss from their reverie...
Every time Sydney-born Methodist Evangelist Alan Walker, 52, delivered a sermon on radio or TV, his phone rang half the night with pleas for personal help. The experience told Walker that Australia's largest city (pop. 2,223,000) has a crying need-and a means at hand to solve it. And so he organized the Life Line Movement, which last March opened a $140,000 center in Sydney, where 250 Protestant laymen work 24 hours a day answering the telephone calls that come...