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...usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered in their cavalry boots...
Sabotage & Silly Reasons. The normal atmosphere, however, was grudging cooperation and hardly a trace of good will. U.S. planes which came down behind Soviet lines in Europe were in many cases simply taken over by the Red Air Force, without a by-your-leave. Permission to set up radar stations in Soviet territory to guide Allied bombers over Eastern Germany was curtly refused ("the silly reason . . . that they would have caused interference to Red Army radio communications"). U.S. shuttle-bombing bases in the Ukraine were established only after months of painful negotiation, and then, says General Deane, "the [Soviet] General...
Efforts to locate Fred Husband, the author of the hobo plan, were at first unsuccessful due to the fact that Planner Husband is himself a tramp. The Vagrancy Committee tried to trace him with the help of the newspapers. Last week he was discovered in a fish & chips shop...
...went there in 1940, a gloomy Jewish refugee from Vichyfranee. He has taught composition to college girls in the mornings, composed in privacy during the afternoons. In none of his American scores (including an opera called Bolivar, the symphony, five concertos and some chamber music) is there much trace of U.S. influence ("My only influences are French and I remain true to them").* He is now hard at work on a Third Symphony, commissioned by the French National Radio, which he will conduct next October in Paris. What his music says most now is that France's exiled composer...
Miss Rubin has devoted herself to the study of Jewish secular music for a number of years, and is considered an expert in this field. Her recital will trace the origin and development of Jewish music, from the ancient chants of the Levites, through the products of Eastern European Jewry, to the most modern Palestinian songs...