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...folding chairs, camped all night in front of the box office, and scalpers set the price of seats at $30. When Mitropoulos arrived four hours late at Athens' airport, after a bumpy flight from Naples, hundreds of admirers greeted him with cries of "Yassou, yassou-Hello, hello." and thrust bunches of tuberoses and laurel into his arms. But the maestro was in no mood for adulation. "I was sick as a dog," he blurted into a microphone, "and I still feel ill. I'm very happy to be back. Now please let me pass...
...philosophy, Richard Nixon has made more of the job than any other Vice President in U.S. history. Before Nixon, Vice Presidents usually were isolated, distrusted and ignored. In his memoirs now being published in LIFE, Harry Truman admits that he was appallingly uninformed when Franklin Roosevelt's death thrust him into the President's office. He did not even know that the U.S. was building an atomic bomb, which was then almost ready to use. As Vice President, Truman was inclined to look upon himself as a member of the legislative branch, who could not expect to share...
...There seem to be in nature two opposing streams-the tendency toward organization and goal-seeking, and the tendency toward chance and randomness. The upward purposeful thrust of life, which continually opposes the downward drag of matter, is evidence, I think, that in nature there is something that we may call-to name what can never be put into words-a Principle of Organization. Not only does lift man ever higher but it provides three great essentials for his religion-: brings order out of randomness, spirit out of matter, and personality out of neutral and impersonal stuff. This Principle...
...best. Hingham changes his personality to fit each prospect, and meets with no failure. Soon "It was a frenzy, a perfect orgy of setting in which, finally, he did not speak at all but had only to make a convulsive gesture and the people accepted the contracts he thrust at them...
Frosty beer, in bottles and cans, will be thrust into the hands of upperclassmen interested in the CRIMSON's annual fall competition at 7:30 tonight at 14 Plympton...