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...language-he was trying to elevate the orchestra to a position of new importance, where it would become the main commentator on the action. His opera's moonstruck tale of love and fratricide, which returned to the Metropolitan last week after an absence of two seasons, had a staunch admirer in Alban Berg, who acknowledged that Pelléas provided him with the model for his own tradition-smashing Wozzeck. But for all his growing success, Debussy's music earned him practically no money. Most of the time he depended on handouts from his few friends...
Along with the desegregation of Atlanta's schools, lunch counters, and other public facilities, Galphin noted that Georgia itself has seen in the last year the abolishment of the county-unit system of primary voting. The system for years enabled staunch segregationists to be elected by favoring the rural counties over the more liberal urban vote. This summer, combined statewide vote tabulations resulted in the selection of the moderate Carl Sanders as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate over the radical segregationist Marvin Griffin...
Even the two staunch Republican papers in Detroit agreed that it was a "protest" victory, because Governor Swainson had the courage to veto the Bowman bill, thus forcing suburbanites to pay city taxes in Detroit...
Even Adenauer's firmest friends were alarmed to hear this staunch old democrat voice the essentially totalitarian philosophy that the end justifies the means and that, even in peacetime, due process of law can be set aside to protect the state. Almost unanimously, German editors felt that whatever good intentions lay behind the government's deeds, it all had the sound of an echo from Germany's tragic past. There was no denying that a security breach had been committed, and there were even charges that Der Spiegel had bribed an army officer to divulge military secrets...
...vital to equip Canadian interceptors with nuclear-tipped air-to-air rockets, even more important to arm U.S.-supplied Bomarc antiaircraft missiles with atomic warheads. The latest Gallup poll on the subject shows that 61% of Canada's citizens agree. But Canadian External Affairs Secretary Howard Green, a staunch advocate of disarmament at the U.N., has long argued against the idea on the theory that the fewer countries with nuclear bases the better. And Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, ever mindful that opposition Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson once won a Nobel Peace Prize, backs him up. No nukes...