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...Cairo newspaper in 1963 wrote that "The Mufti appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country...because the Arab armies were about to enter in their stead against the Jewish gangs and oust them from Palestine...
...were more important than anything else in a concert. If this necessitated a breach in propriety or break from formal performance practice, he sanctioned it. Stokowski conducted without a baton, and partly because of that was considered one of the most difficult conductors to follow. He relied in its stead upon subtle gestures and facial expressions to produce the desired results. Stokowski allowed himself to get carried away by the music, thrilling lay audiences but offending purists who preferred to hear performances that obeyed composers' markings to a holy and scrupulous degree...
...home and on the road. Still, he answers each letter personally, poses with young admirers and puts no secretary between himself and an increasingly demanding press and public. The wry sense of humor that carried him through the days of Rod Who? is serving him in good stead as the summer wears on and people on the street begin to recognize him -sort of. On a road trip to Chicago, a man mistook him for the former Bears halfback: "You're Gale Sayers, aren't you?" Came the response: "No, I'm Rod Carew. How could...
...just as the management had broken them with architectural grandeur, so did it seek to reconstruct them as participants in "the club." The Big "A" scoreboard flashed messages all night long, and I kept looking to it for scores from other games. But there were none. In their stead, I learned, you could pay to have your own "personal" message printed electronically on The Big "A"; thus, all night, an endless stream of "Welcome to Fred and Betty Haller on their fifteenth wedding anniversary," and "Welcome to Howie Johnson, who is attending his first baseball game...
...reducible, once the fight is enjoined, to such small sustaining acts as changing a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow tenant too old to climb a ladder. But he does not bore the reader with his anger. In stead he spins a fascinating personal yearn about the lengthy battle waged by the tenants fo an old rent-controlled walk-up apartment house in the Gramercy Park section of New York City against the monied force of an expansion-bent hospital across the street...