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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's defenses were formidable: 12,000 policemen, 6,000 Illinois National Guardsmen and-on stand-by at suburban naval posts-6,000 Army troops equipped with rifles, flamethrowers and bazookas. Even before the convention began, the police were working twelve-hour shifts: at the height of the trouble, some policemen were on duty as long as 17 hours at a stretch and were obviously under tremendous stress...
...three-story cream-colored chalet, with its red-tiled roof, sits on a knoll in a one-acre garden of pine and chestnut trees. Those who have been inside the villa describe its furnishings as "early Mussolini-pretty ugly stuff." In the entrance stand a wooden cupboard, a nondescript sofa and a desk manned by a Frenchman who appears to be a security man assigned by the French Communist Party. In the second-floor salon where Madame Binh has her office and receives visitors, the original pictures have been taken down (with the hooks left hanging), and portraits of N.L.F...
Watch that intonation-and stand up straight. When Galamian thinks a student is a potential concert performer (rather than, say, an orchestral player or teacher), he works on much more than just his playing. He advises him when to appear publicly, what to wear, how to carry himself. He corrected Young Uck Kim's habit of hitching up his trousers while onstage. He was tough on prankish Arnold Steinhardt, to give him discipline; with shy Kyung-Wha Chung, a co-winner of the 1967 Leventritt Award, he was kindly and patient, to give her confidence. Galamian constantly worries that...
...Black nor White. Hayakawa, who has spoken repeatedly and vigorously on the need for more effective civil rights initiatives, professes some hope that his own color will help him work out a compromise between black militants and whites at S.F. State. "In a very profound sense," he said, "I stand in the middle. I am neither white nor black." Thus he would like to be come "a channel to bring blacks and whites together...
During the Roman spring and summer, 3,000 visitors a day file through the Sistine Chapel, staring, as long as their necks can stand the crane, at Michelangelo's great swirling frescoes on the vaulted ceiling. This week millions of television viewers can have a closer and more relaxed look at Michelangelo's rich creations in a new color movie, shot in many cases from only a few feet away - the closest filming of the ceiling ever permitted. Careful tuning of the TV set is obviously required, but The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man's Dream...