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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Symphony Orchestra, streaks through two famous ballet suites with much of Falla's own theatrical genius, and Grace Bumbry, as a girl chased by the ghost of her dead gypsy lover, gives an exuberant, shoes-off performance in her brief role. All hands seem to have caught the spell of old Andalusia...
...Cloud Nine." The more than 100 airmen who got home were rhapsodic over their success in hitting targets that they have long ached to obliterate. When the nuclear-powered Enterprise finished an eight-month spell on Yankee Station off North Viet Nam in June, a squadron commander noted that the ship had launched more strike missions than any other carrier in a comparable period. Yet, he added ruefully, "we just haven't done the job we could have." Said a diplomat in Saigon: "How would you feel if you" were a pilot in the best air force...
...Minority Leader Jerry Ford that they consider it "absolutely unconstitutional" and will fight to the end to defeat it. Title IV was barely rescued (17 to 15) by a curious coalition of Northern liberals who were committed to the housing provision and Southerners who reckoned that its inclusion would spell certain death for the whole civil rights bill...
...Gaulle quickly discovered that the mere invasion of Russia -however glorious-is not tantamount to victory. On the night of his arrival, after a dinner of caviar, cucumber soup, and jellied deer's-tongue, De Gaulle struck his main theme: "France would like to see the harmful spell [of the cold war] broken and, at least as far as she is concerned, a beginning of new relations toward relaxation, harmony and cooperation with the East European states. Paris, in talking of this to the East, necessarily addresses itself to Moscow. The re-establishment of Europe into a fertile whole...
...someone is shot or blown up," he wrote, "it is almost as good as solving the crime." When a Polish alder man proposed renaming an expressway after the Polish General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Royko explained why the idea would never work. "In fact, 98% of all policemen cannot spell it, so it would be impossible for anyone to get a ticket...