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...fragmented, for that was the way things were in the chaotic months when World War II ended and every day was marked by hundreds of hurried decisions that affected the peace. The U.S. approach to the potential problems of postwar Germany left the Russians in a position to stir up trouble at will. But there are no grounds for questioning the West's legal rights...
...undeclared war, and Lacerda is a formidable antagonist. He returned to Rio and announced that Justice Minister Horta had invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...Acker Bilk, king of the trad men, is a chap with a name that has probably caused Charles Dickens to stir in his grave, tap his foot and smile. A 32-year-old former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year...
Last spring Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy caused a stir at Washington's blueblooded Metropolitan Club when he learned that a fellow member, George Cabot Lodge, 34 (son of Henry Cabot Lodge), had been prevented from inviting to lunch George Weaver, who is 1) young Lodge's successor as Assistant Secretary of Labor, and 2) a Negro. But last week, though notably reluctant to discuss the episode, the Metropolitan Club had admitted Lodge and Guest Weaver to its once segregated sanctum...
...same state, the campers took nature walks between classes at the camping school, where they learned how to keep a campfire from turning into a disaster (dig a hole for the fire, line the rim with rocks; before leaving it, douse it with water and sand and stir thoroughly until it is cool enough to be sifted by hand). In Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, the streams rippled with trout (provided by the wildlife commissions), and the campsites, many with their own blacktop driveways, rippled with people. The rhododendron overhung the creeks in Minnesota's Lake Itasca State...