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Vietnam's long travail in war has deferred the development of the kind of leadership needed to create for its people the material advantages of developed nations. Improvements in transport, the creation and utilization of power resources, the development of an industrial capacity, and the use of mechanical and electronic technology require the education of substantial numbers of applied scientists...
Buffalo's four nights of travail began with the stoning of a bus at the end of a sultry day. A rock-throwing mob quickly gathered, shots were fired by snipers, and fires soon broke out. The same violent tableau was repeated the next three nights. "One minute it's a mob," said Police Commissioner Frank Felicetta. "Next, it splits into eight gangs heading eight different ways." Yet Felicetta refused to call "it" a riot. "Rampage," he said, "is a better word." The toll: 78 injured, more than 200 arrested, at least $100,000 damage...
...Travail du Peintre (1957) is a cycle of seven songs on poems by Paul Eluard, each of which portrays a painter of this century: Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Gris, Klee, Miro, Villon. Despite their date, they, too, hearken back to an earlier period and have a great deal in common with the songs of Faure. Miss Fuerstman, who is studying for a Masters in voice at the Manhattan School, failed to achieve a sense of phrasing in the more declamatory songs; elsewhere, however, she exhibited a rare blend of spirit and control. Both compositions of Poulenc suffered from problems of balance...
...Sympathy. Once segregated from the rest of the paper and ignored by male journalists, today's women's page is often read by as many men as women. Under the spirited direction of Charlotte Curtis, the New York Times's page often focuses on men: their travail when they go shopping with their wives, their attempts to get closer to their kids by familiarizing them with office life. Women's golf, once confined to the sports page of the Houston Post, now appears on the women's page in a column titled "Tee and Sympathy...
...Conniff is the first to admit, the interview contains no startling revelations or disclosures. But when Considine stops painting his elaborate word pictures and lets Jackie talk, it gives a clear, poignant picture of her present life-along with its travail. Her children, for instance, are sometimes targets of madness or abuse. "I still haven't gotten over that strange woman," recalls Jackie, "who leaped at Caroline as we came out of church on All Saints' Day. She shouted at the poor child, 'Your mother is a wicked woman who has killed three people! and your father...