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...first fire was in a shoe store. When fire engines screamed to the scene, rocks flew. One fireman, caught squarely in the jaw, was knocked from a truck to the gutter. More and more rioters were drawn to the streets by the sound of the sirens and a sense of summer excitement...
Died. William M. Fechteler, 71, four-star admiral, an old-fashioned "black-shoe" (in Navy talk, a pure sailor as opposed to a brown-shoe, or flyer) who learned his profession aboard destroyers and battleships, in World War II led amphibious assaults on New Guinea and the Philippines, in 1951 was named Chief of Naval Operations during the Korean War buildup, then took over as Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in Southern Europe until his retirement in 1956; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...mechanical delivery on Portia's part that extends even to the "quality of mercy" speech. Carnovsky's playing throughout this scene is a marvel. Here he lets himself lose control twice and shatters courtroom decorum by pounding on the judge's bench as though he were Khruschchev banging his shoe in the United Nations assembly. His modulation from this to his final "I am content" is masterly. When he makes his final exit, he stumbles on the stairs, then goes on -- defeated, but not crushed. This is a performance so complex, so complete, so compelling that one hesitates to apply...
...client countries as well as the older nations that profess concern that their fate should largely reside in American and Soviet hands, the non-news of the Summit should in itself be a measure of reassurance. Johnson was no more the plains-Texan wheeler-dealer than was Kosygin a shoe-banging Khrushchev. Both men demonstrated that they are able to survey, if not to solve, the overriding issues with acumen and restraint...
...briefly with a Wall Street firm-as a messenger. At a shoe factory, his job was so lowly that "even the office girls wanted me to address them by their last names." He even worked for 20th Century-Fox, where he sent complimentary tickets for premières to dignitaries. "I now would like to apologize to former Mayor Wagner," said Joe, "whose ticket I gave to my grandmother...