Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombed by white racists and his small chain of dry-goods stores boycotted by Negroes. At week's end, Nosser, Police Chief J. T. Robinson and Sheriff Odell Anders appeared at a Negro protest rally and took part in a tableau the likes of which Mississippi had not seen before. Linking arms with Negro demonstrators, they sang We Shall Overcome...
Painful Decision. Luce's greatest postwar sorrow was the fall of China to the Communists in 1949. A staunch supporter and friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Luce had nonetheless seen the Red handwriting on the wall. In 1946 he visited Nanking while the mission of General George Marshall was trying to effect a peace between the Kuomintang and the Communists. There, he went to see Chou Enlai, who was then the head of the Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit...
Whether China's new sobriety represented a temporary pause or a permanent retreat remained to be seen. Moscow, which probably knows as well as anyone what goes on within Peking's inner councils, issued its own official appraisal. The Kremlin conclusion: Mao was merely changing his tactics, not his goals, a change necessitated by the "decisive resistance" of the Chinese people "to the Red Guard outrages...
...concerto, a rapturous, heart-on-the-sleeve piece that was clearly intended to sear, not soothe, the savage breast. The cellist was Britain's Jacqueline Du Pré, who performed last week in Manhattan with Leonard Bernstein's New York Philharmonic. It was a performance to be seen as much as heard, for Du Pré couldn't sit still a minute...
Rave On, Samson! Cassius is seen most revealingly in the pages on the Champ's parents. His mother Odessa calls him Gee Gee, in honor of Cassius' first words. An unruffled mistress of the house, she shouts down her husband by yelling, "Rave on, Samson!" Cassius' determined will and his unwavering discipline are strictly the work of Odessa...