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...years; it makes it doubly hard on thousands of Dallasites who loved and honored President Kennedy, and whose sense of impotent frustration is made almost unbearable by being lumped as one with those of our fellow citizens who would go to any lengths to forget. Why is mention so seldom made of the thousands of floral tributes, verses, photographs, and pathetic handmade memorials regularly left at the assassination site? Or of the petitions to have a permanent marker of dignity and respect? Or of the letters to local newspapers decrying the "official" attitude of our city? Please...
...thinks, forever. "My only idiosyncrasy is that I prefer to play in the afternoon," he says. "It is tense to wait until the evening. By the time evening comes I am ready to go eeeeeech! But that is all. The audiences are too hysterical now because I play too seldom. These hysterics, they bother me, they make me nervous. I have a responsibility to make the public relax. I am ready to play more...
Psychological Effect. Though the effect of such orders will be largely psychological, they might work well. Seldom have traders been so drawn by profit dreams rather than performance reality. Most notable example this month is Calumet & Hecla Inc., a 95-year-old Michigan copper company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With investors excited by the possibilities of war in Viet Nam and shortages of war-essential copper at home, Calumet & Hecla two weeks ago touched off a run by announcing a 35 million-ton copper ore find in upper Michigan. Remembering quick profits generated by Texas Gulf Sulphur...
...seldom goes out. People come to him in a steady stream with reports, requests, gossip, rumors, intelligence. Clearly reveling in his game of political chess, he dispatches a Buddhist plenipotentiary to the resort city of Dalat, sends one of his attendant courier-monks with a message to the Vien Hoa Dao. Thich Tam Chau, secretary-general of the institute and nominally the senior monk in Viet Nam, comes by for lunch. Tam Chau, 44, once considered Tri Quang's rival, likes such creature comforts as his chauffeured Mercedes sedan. Tri Quang twits him about it, himself takes pedicabs about town...
...idea of a dead end, seldom in all literature so powerfully expressed, dominated Waugh's experience in this period. Sickened by the chaos of the '20s, banished from the order of his childhood, he felt desperately the need of a new center to turn on, and he found it in Catholicism. Waugh was converted in 1930, and this experience, followed by the great adventure of World War II, altogether altered...