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...Balabanoff, 96, high priestess of socialism, a Ukrainian landowner's daughter turned revolutionary at age 19, confidante to Lenin and First Secretary of the Third Communist International, who broke with Communism in 1921, exposing her former heroes (My Life as a Rebel, Impressions of Lenin), but remained an unshaken believer in socialism, thereafter lending her support to Italian Social-Democrat Giuseppe Saragat and the U.S.'s Norman Thomas; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Rome...
Eight years ago Mississipian Bill Higgs graduated from Harvard Law School with modest grades, unpretentious ambitions, and an unshaken faith in racism. He served an Army stint and disappeared quietly into a Jackson, Mississippi law practice. Today he is one of Washington's most militant lobbyists for integration, an attorney for SNCC, and the author of several titles of the present civil rights bill. As his close friend, Roy Wilkins, noted here last week: "When a Southerner changes, he's very thorough about...
...materials of music, sequences of notes, from one style to another, with only minor changes. Thus of the six works by the members of Moevs' pro-seminar which were performed Monday, three used themes variously derived from the beginning of the hymn "Victimae Paschali" Christ lag in Todesbanden. An unshaken sense of coherence, occasionally lapsing into flat uniformity, bound each piece tightly into a unit...
What Mr. Kennedy got, as it happened, was not so useful a political weapon as he had hoped for. The Committee set up certain criteria for aid administrators to observe and recommended a cut of $500 million in this year's appropriation. But the President was unshaken; he genuflected before the report and made a show of reducing his January budget estimate by $420 million. The theory, once again, was to anticipate conservative objections to a larger appropriation and although his more cynical friends advised him that the only result would be a still lower authorization for the Appropriations subcommittee...
...Still unshaken and unshakable, McNamara returned to the U.S., went vacationing in California's High Sierras ("You don't know the feeling you get when you're on top of a mountain"), hopeful that the storm would soon blow over. Instead, it grew worse. President Kennedy agreed to meet Macmillan at Nassau. Kennedy ordered McNamara back from vacation to attend the sessions, which Secretary of State Dean Rusk...