Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colliding Color Blurs. How much history? No one could say, least of all the principals. Historian Arnold Toynbee once mused that world peace could come from only two sources: world government or racial amalgamation. Which will take longer remains to be seen, and some experts predict a ten-century wait before the colors blend in the U.S. alone (see ESSAY...
...control of Canton is going on, but probably not in the violent terms in which it has recently been depicted to the outside world. Undoubtedly there have been deaths in the past several months, but probably a few hundred rather than many thousands. Heavy weapons probably have been seen moving through the streets on occasion, but U.S. intelligence experts believe that they have rarely, if ever, been employed. Peking has sent several divisions of troops to Canton to keep order, but the best intelligence estimates are that they have carefully avoided choosing sides, and are using their presence to restrain...
...setting of The Magic Flute. In neither case was the performance on much more than a ho-hum level; in fact, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe's first Met Violetta seemed an almost deliberate throwback to the bad old days when singers were meant to be heard but not seen...
...about marijuana leading to a crime wave prompted Congress to provide stiff penalties: up to five years for any pot offense. Now the maximum is 40 years. No probation is allowed for second offenders and a minimum sentence of five years is mandatory. In most states, no difference was seen between pot and such other drugs as heroin and opium; all were usually lumped under the same general narcotic law with the result that in Georgia, to take the most extreme example, selling marijuana to minors can bring the death penalty...
...Remembered. The results can be seen in the reconstructed Old Town district and along Krakowskie Przed-miescie, a popular promenade. Nowhere perhaps is the correspondence between art and life more striking than in the New Town Market Square (see color opposite). There stands the lovely baroque Church of the Nuns of the Holy Sacrament, completed in 1687 in fulfillment of a vow made by Queen Maria Kazimiera as her husband, King John Sobieski, rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled...