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Living up to his campaign slogan, LET'S GO WITH LABOR, Britain's new Prime Minister went, went, went. In a few whirlwind days last week, Harold Wilson issued a series of edicts and exhortations that clearly proclaimed both the pragmatic aims and no-nonsense style of his administration...
...After a whirlwind tour of the West with Campaigner Lyndon B. Johnson, CBS Correspondent Dan Rather got back to Washington for a breather. There, his boss, News Director William Small, wanted to know how the campaign seemed to be going. Rather could not say. At today's pace, he explained, "you don't have time to get the sense, the smell of the campaign. You whip in and whip...
...universe, each man must create an ordered, meaningful existence. Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe offers a 399 page world of chaos from Sanskrit to Seismology, and the Administration decrees that students may only use four or five courses to build an ordered shelter against the whirlwind. Yet what is order but a dry formalistic structure without vibrant content, without pulsating life...
Once in Congress, Lyndon was on a whirlwind rise, and Lady Bird rocketed along beside him. In 1948, when he ran for the Senate, Lady Bird swallowed her shyness, forced herself to travel all over Texas, if only to say howdy at barbecues. On the night before the election, the car in which she was riding careened off the road, flipped over twice in the mud. "All I could think of as we were turning over was that I sure wished I'd voted absentee," recalls Lady Bird. But she hopped out unhurt, hitched a ride, borrowed a dress...
Misfortune's Child. Mehta's big chance came during a whirlwind nine-month period in 1960-61 when half the world's first-rank conductors were struck with illness. Hopscotching between continents on a moment's notice, he became the leading understudy to a host of ailing maestros, winning high critical acclaim nearly everywhere he appeared. In 1961, after stellar subbing jobs in Los Angeles and Montreal, Mehta was named resident conductor with both cities' orchestras. At 24, he rejuvenated Montreal's faltering orchestra almost overnight, stretched its season from twelve to 26 weeks...