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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta took a harsher line. In the shade of a wild fig tree near Nakuru, where the 11th Battalion of his Kenya Rifles had mutinied, a military tribunal sorted out sheep from goats. Each of 500 suspects was trotted out at British bayonet point, briefly but intensely quizzed, then adjudged either "black" (an active, armed mutineer), "grey" (doubtful) or "white." (Worried about the color code's racial implications, the tribunal first tried a red-green-yellow system but found it too confusing.) All told, the tribunal tagged 100 black sheep. Kenyatta promised...
...finish line in 2 min. 21.82 sec., almost 1½ sec. better than the course record, American joy knew no bounds. But Germany's Ludwig Leitner clocked 2 min. 19.67 sec., and France's Leo Lacroix cut almost a second off that. Then, high above the tree line a grinning, brown-haired Austrian stabbed at the snow with his ski poles and began...
...demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...
...hours later-the first fatality in the history of the Winter Olympics. Then, to everyone's horror, there was a second death. Practicing for the men's downhill race, Australian Skier Ross Milne, 19, missed a turn on the icy slopes and slammed sickeningly into a tree at 50 m.p.h. He never regained consciousness...
Complete Musician. Hindemith was a composer's composer-and a complete musician. He wrote music, as Albert Einstein once said, "as a tree bears fruit"-great bushels of music, turned out in orderly, workmanlike style. He was a concert violist and pianist, a competent player of every other instrument in the orchestra, and a greatly admired conductor. In a single day at the Berlin Festival in 1960, Hindemith conducted four choirs, played a three-string vielle in a recital of 14th century songs, then sat back to listen to the world première of his Motets for Tenor...