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Barbra couldn't sing a clinker either. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home brought tumult. He Touched Me touched everybody. Autumn Leaves, in French yet, wowed 'em, and People knocked 'em out. For encores she wailed her tearful Happy Days Are Here Again and, patting her bulging tummy, crooned Silent Night. And that was that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then...
Sweet Sounds. Johnson, standing with Díaz Ordaz throughout the 2½-hour ride, fairly floated in the tumult, holding his hands above his head like a victorious prizefighter or making an "O.K." sign with circled thumb and forefinger. "I've never seen anything like this anywhere," he exulted from the steps of Los Pinos, home of Mexican Presidents. "I've always known the Mexican people were generous, stimulating people, but I never saw such inspiration and stimulation as in those faces. I think it was the most wonderful reception I have ever had anywhere...
...summer day in 1936, during the tumult of the Spanish Civil War, a Fascist squad arrested Federico Garcia Lorca in a friend's house and on the following morning, shot...
...finds them there, locks them up, and by the time the war ends the sentimental old wretch has grown so fond of his two prisoners that he decides to keep them as pets. Soberly, he fakes reports from the battle zones ("London is pffft") while the tumult of German reconstruction gets under way outside, sounding conveniently like the thunder of guns...
Fruit of Humility. Yet despite the tumult and the tremors, India continues to function with a stability rare in Asia. Part of the reason stems from India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, whose modest manner is the very antithesis of the hubris of Nehru. Tiny and turkey-necked, shy as a schoolboy in his rumpled dhoti and brown loafers, Shastri both matches the diminished stature of India and reflects its inchoate strength. By merely surviving for 14 months in a situation that many thought might end in anarchy, Shastri has shown that India has a chance...