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...Showers & Violins. Ninety years old this week, this uniquely cultural Y is known officially as the Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association. The founders, leading Jewish philanthropists of the 1870s, aimed at "the cultural and intellectual advancement of Jewish young men." At first that meant luring immigrant kids off the streets with hot showers and 50 violin lessons. Later it meant developing the New York Pro Musica ensemble, harboring dancers from Martha Graham to Jose Limon, and attracting some of the most literate audiences in the U.S. While salvaging such once-poor Jewish boys as Bernard...
Upstaging the Cold War. To demonstrate Cambodian neutrality, 13 of the Viet Cong fighters who had taken refuge in Cambodia were sentenced to one year of "rest" in prison. Then Sihanouk took off in his French helicopter to go village-hopping, make speeches, and shower bolts of cloth and other gifts from his chopper upon the amazed peasants below. Sihanouk also continued a shrill diplomatic campaign that seems to assume that Cambodia, with its 5,500,000 people-a country known to many Westerners only vaguely as the locale of the magnificent, slumbering old temples of Angkor Wat-is somehow...
...cover up the crow's-feet for eight hours. A pat of water can reactivate it for an hour or two. But too much water sluices the lotion away-and many a woman will run the risk of getting all wrinkled in the course of a sudden spring shower...
...Malcolm X was sure to go), he strode boldly into the delegates' lounge-instantly creating what one observer described as "the biggest sensation since Khrushchev took off his shoe." Complained Turkish Ambassador Turgut Menemencioglu: "They're more interested in Cassius than in Cyprus." Delegates lined up to shower him with invitations to visit their countries. "We're proud of you. Come whenever you can," beamed Liberian Ambassador Christie W. Doe. "Thank you, sir," answered the pride of Louisville. "I have longed to go back home to Liberia." Cassius' eyes bugged at the sight of an African...
...cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from 6:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.)--along with two steel table bench combinations. No radios allowed, no sleeping in the day room...