Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DVORAK: SLAVONIC DANCES (Columbia). At his worst, Dvoŕák can make music sound like busy work for idle hands, but he can also evoke the folk music of Bohemia echoing across silent valleys and hills. It is this Dvoŕák that George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra capture...
...another J.F.K.-and-I saga is forthcoming from former Frontiersman Kenneth O'Donnell, who vowed to keep silent after reading Eisenhower Speechwriter Emmet John Hughes's book about Ike. In O'Donnell's words: "You're in a man's office, and he trusts you, and then you do that-it's almost like a Peeping Tom." He was persuaded to write a book nonetheless. Meanwhile, says O'Donnell, he has turned down offers of corporation jobs paying up to $500,000 a year. Reason: he intends to run for Governor...
...miles north of Saigon The target: a patch of rain forest and rubber plantations known as the "Iron Triangle," which had not been entered by government forces for years First Guam-based B-52s blasted the sides of the target. Then, swooping in over startled water buffaloes and silent paddies, helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras (armed helicopters). A battery of the Royal New Zealand Artillery moved up by truck...
...plan speaks rather vaguely of a need to restudy industry's incentive to modernize, but otherwise is silent about how such productivity gains can be managed. In fact, the plan's architects admit that the economic slowdown the government is now trying to bring about in order to preserve the value of the pound will deal their growth timetable a severe blow this year. Though insisting that sharp limits be maintained on outlays for defense and foreign aid, the planners call for a 29% expansion of government civil spending by 1970, including boosts...
...ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense of sportsmanship toward suspected associates." Only if the witness "was subjecting himself to some degree of danger of a criminal offense" would his reticence be justified...