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Lyndon Johnson's denunciation of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In the years between, he served as interpreter (and sometimes adviser) to Franklin Roosevelt at the Teheran and Yalta conferences and to Harry Truman at Potsdam (where he tried without much success to explain the intricacies of American baseball to Joseph Stalin...
Tedious Regimen. Much of the success of the new system will at first depend on King Bhumibol, 46, who avoided politics until recently. He used to spend his days touring his kingdom, opening hospitals, awarding diplomas and visiting villages. Reports TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand: "It is precisely this tiring, often tedious regimen that has made Bhumibol so unreservedly loved throughout the country. His travels also made him aware of the disfavor felt toward the military regime and the need to bring farmers and laborers into the National Assembly. Since last October's student revolt, the King has distinguished himself...
...imagine what happens when Allen slips on one of those banana peels. It is almost impossible, however, to convey the intricacy of his comic inventiveness, the shrewdness with which he sustains his comic lines. The simplest measure of Sleeper's success is perhaps the fact that one recalls it not by quoting Allen's one-liners but by trying to describe-inadequately-his beautifully built visual gags...
...effort to fight these worms eating at the core of the Big Apple, merchants, theater owners and the New York Times, which is located just off the square, put up $15,000 for the TV monitors. Similar systems have been tried in other U.S. cities with varying success. If the setup works in Times Square, TV cameras may be installed in other crime-infested areas of the city...
...success of the original-cast album of South Pacific, produced by Lieberson in 1949, gave Columbia's new long-playing record the commercial push it badly needed. It also paved the way for a hugely profitable succession of similar ventures, such as My Fair Lady and Sound of Music...