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...third largest hotel, the Robert E. Lee, who ordered the hotel's Confederate flag struck and put up a sign: CLOSED IN DESPAIR. CIVIL RIGHTS BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Two days later, Gammill announced that henceforth the Robert E. Lee was a private club open to members only. A Richmond, Va., steakhouse also turned private, and restaurants in Charlottesville, Va., and Durham, N.C., and a Williamston, N.C., theater closed their doors for good rather than comply...
London Records was the first to exhume a number of its buried treasures, reissuing under the Richmond label such gems as George Szell conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Brahms's Third Symphony and the Mozart Requiem conducted by Josef Krips at the bargain-basement price of just $1.98 per record (formerly $4.98). Sales were brisk, so London reissued ten operas, including Renata Tebaldi in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly. Mercury followed London's lead, establishing its Wing label, featuring such surefire favorites as suites from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and Swan Lake ($1.98 for mono...
Perilous Loneliness. Even in the bustling San Francisco Bay Area, the pristine, almost deserted Richmond-Oakland hills are only a few minutes away from the roar of U.S. 40. Motorists driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco can turn off U.S. 101 and, at the price of a few extra hours, follow California Route 1 along the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop...
...editor's intellectual bravura, was a rallying point for those who subscribed to the Buckley brand of "radical conservatism." In its pages, such conservative spokesmen as Russell (Conservative Mind) Kirk, Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter (Conservatism in America) and James Jackson Kilpatrick Jr., editor of the Richmond News Leader, spelled out the philosophy of their politics. Sometimes even outsiders were permitted aboard, among them Liberal Columnist Murray Kempton and Steve Allen, whose occupation as a TV comedian allows time for the espousal of liberal causes...
...play has been trimmed to a running-time of three hours and a half, with one intermission about two-thirds through. In the parade of murdered ghosts, most tellingly staged, the victims address Richard alone and all the balancing apostrophes to Richmond are omitted; these really ought to be restored...