Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectators gave Composer-Conductor Casals a ten-minute standing ovation, all the more enthusiastic because he had almost failed to make it to the premiere. A few hours before the performance he felt ill, was told that he had a slight pulmonary congestion. To his doctor he announced: "Tonight I am going to conduct even if they have to take me out of there dead...
...quiet, tree-lined town of Gilmanton, N.H. enjoyed a fleeting notoriety when Townswoman Grace Metalious renamed it Peyton Place. Behind Gilmanton's doors, Novelist Metalious found fictional murderers, abortionists and deviates. But somehow she overlooked Richard Pavlick, 73, a slight, white-haired postal clerk and onetime mental patient, whose only aberration seemed to be writing angry letters to newspapers and to public figures. One day last month Richard Pavlick decided to do something worthy of inclusion in Peyton Place: he made up his mind to kill a President-elect...
...every Cotillion Room or Maisonette, the city has at least 100 small, usually drab, sometimes offbeat places, supporting all the piano players whose mothers forced them to go on taking lessons. Each has something reasonably unique, however slight. At 55th Street's Gaudeamus, tourists go for the foam-rubber padding along the edge of the bar, presumably there to protect them if the bar crashes. The best belly dancing east of Scranton, Pa. goes on in the Egyptian Gardens on West 29th Street. The African Room is full of thatch, fronds, voodoo masks, a men's room called...
...Slight Misunderstanding. Catching wind of Shaker's maneuvers, the Amins coldly passed word that Akhbar's once fat profits had dwindled to the vanishing point since Nasser's nationalization. There would be no raise, they said. Enraged at this "reneging," a crowd of infuriated typesetters pursued the brothers to their ninth-floor office, besieged them with shouts of "Swindlers! Stealers!" Police drove them away. Soon after, Nasser barred both the Amins and Shaker from the Akhbar building...
Freshman soccer captain Chris O'Hiri led the Yardlings to a 92-17 triumph. Before incurring a slight muscle pull, O'Hiri established Freshman indoor and Harvard Freshman Cage marks with a 22 ft., 6 3/4 in., leap in the broad jump. His 4.6 in. the 40-yard dash was one-tenth of a second off the Freshman indoor record...