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...alive long enough. I suppose I will march up the hill again and march back down again. But when I reach the bottom of the hill, I will still be looking at the summit to see where I rightfully belong . . . One becomes weary in welldoing. The fire bell rang at 2 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock, 6 o'clock, midnight and 10 o'clock. While I was trying to woo Morpheus, suddenly that awful clang occurred, and I thought. "Goodness, who wants to go through all this again?" I do not want...
...They thought I was a political cadaver," rang out the familiar, high-pitched voice across the public square in the industrial city of Campinas. "But the people, repeating the Bible, said 'Rise and walk,' and here I am." A year after he surprisingly abdicated Brazil's presidency and took a slow boat around the world, six months after his return to an uncertain political future, unstable, unpredictable J?nio Quadros, 45, was hard on the comeback campaign trail last week, running for his old job as governor of S?o Paulo state...
...snort with excitement. At Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Conductor Josef Krips gave agile proof that he is descended from a long line of conductors of the Viennese school, a special breed that has all but disappeared from the world's concert halls, a line that once rang with such great names as Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner (Krips's teacher), Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter. What those artists had in common, says the Buffalo Symphony's Krips, was a sense of continuity, a conviction that music should be "one long legato line." Krips's own legato...
...seemed at first like a great idea. A television camera was discreetly installed in the apartment-house lobby. When an apartment owner's bell rang, all he had to do was flip his TV set to Channel 4, and the image of his caller flashed on the screen over a specially installed closed circuit. Thus tenant could have a good look at caller before deciding...
...become strong enough to challenge anybody. When the Pentagon last Dec. 21 cut him off as a supplier to U.S. military jets in Japan because of his dealings with Russia, Idemitsu called the boycott "an odd Christmas gift," but "utterly negligible." True enough: last year, the Idemitsu Kosan Co. rang up sales of $275 million, second largest of any Japanese oil company.* Of this, the U.S. Air Force bought little more than...