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Congress recessed last week for its own ten-day version of the Labor Day weekend, its direction so uncertain, its temper so fractious that few would be so bold as to forecast its final record...
...arrival of this year's collection followed the usual giddy ten-day whirl from fashion house to fashion house in Paris in late July and early August. From headquarters at the swanky Hotel Georges V, Alexander's buying delegation stepped out each morning for buying appointments at 7:30, then rushed to catch the shows, and often worked late into the night studying color samples. There is an elaborate air of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. Ohrbach's buyers, for example, made a point of staying at the less conspicuous Elysee-Parc Hotel, because...
Last week the Met concluded a ten-day Verdi stand in Newport, R.I., that combined familiar pieces with a smorgasbord of the unfamiliar representing musicological digging at its frenzied best. The top events were a series of open-air concert performances of Verdi operas, ranging from the well-loved La Traviata and // Trovatore to the ripsnorting, deliriously difficult / Vespri Siciliani. The singing was predictably proficient, the Festival Field amplification acceptable and the attendance fair...
...week reamed scores of U.S. Congressmen, some bent on fishing and swimming, most with a different objective. Faning out toward Bangor and Balboa, International Falls and Corpus Christi, they were hoping to find out what was on their constituents' minds and sniff the air back home during a ten-day recess that ends this week. At Fourth of July parades and picnics, at backyard barbecues and Little League ball games, the Congressmen spent long hours talking-and listening. What they discovered was a pleasant summertime surface, and beneath it some serious anxieties...
...asked for court intervention. A temporary injunction was issued barring any States' Rights Party rallies in Princess Anne for ten days, and a later decision extended the ban for ten months. The States' Rights Party appealed, and the Maryland Court of Appeals has just ruled on both orders. In accordance with Justice Holmes's "clear and present danger" test, the court found that the ten-day curtailment of free speech was entirely allowable in the circumstances that existed in Princess Anne. But although "the remarks and epithets hurled at Negroes were nothing less than an invitation...