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...Nationalists had called the unnerving ladies rude names ("foolish virgins," "weeping Winnies") to no avail. This time Strydom ordered his Cabinet ministers to ignore them. A dozen women entered Parliament itself, and at a signal put on their black sashes, in mourning for South Africa's constitution. An usher demanded that they remove the sashes. They complied, then calmly took black artificial roses from their handbags and pinned them to their dresses. The usher demanded that these be removed too, but the sergeant at arms nervously ruled that the black flowers could be worn. The women knew their cause...
...city of Salzburg was aglow last summer with a magnificent production of Mozart's Magic Flute. To help usher in the Mozart year with style, the Austrians commissioned Oskar Kokoschka to design sets for the opera. The sets were a great success, and so was an extensive exhibit of Kokoschka's work at the Residenz Museum. Seventy year old Kokoschka was as bold as ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more...
Harry Hopkins and Averell Harriman needed each other. While Hopkins could usher Harriman into Government importance, Harriman could introduce Hopkins into a life of croquet, champagne and social elegance. Through Hopkins, Harriman became one of the New Deal's "tame millionaires"-so tame, in fact, that some of his Wall Street friends could hardly believe...
...Summit' meeting, if it is to be historic, rather than episodic, must usher in an era of peaceful change. It will not be an era of placidity and stagnancy, in the sense that the status quo, with its manifold injustices, will be accepted as permanent. It will be an era of change . . ." As if to get that era on its way. he announced that "the Western powers are ready to advance some overall plan of European security which would give the Soviet Union substantial additional reassurances." His closing plea was based on hope: "Let us strive together ... so that...
...Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked three times with his staff at the barred doors. When the doors swung open, he ceremoniously summoned the members to attend upon Her Majesty...