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...country's newest yoke is high external debt-upwards of $10 billion-and it is weighing heavily. Two weeks ago, after a patient wait of about two months, European American Bank finally asked the U.S. Commodity Credit Corporation to make good on an overdue installment of $5.5 million on a loan obtained by Rumania to buy U.S. farm products. Earlier, First Chicago International had made a similar claim for $300,000. As initial guarantor of the loans...
...long Watergate ordeal affected him. Standing in the pilot's cabin aboard Air Force One on a trip with Nixon, Ehrlichman momentarily considered a quick solution: "I could end everyone's troubles by throwing myself against the controls, wedging myself between the pilot's control yoke and the pilot. We'd all be gone in about a minute and a half." Some of the unfortunate former officials portrayed in Witness to Power may wish that Ehrlichman had not dismissed the idea. -By Ed Magnuson
...after year to assay the hopeless task of performing major operas in dining halls with hastily convoked orchestras, and I suppose the answer lies in the greatness of the works themselves. But next time perhaps a different approach to undergraduate opera is in order. Some enterprising director ought to yoke together several of the valuable resources available here to amateurs, like the Loeb mainstage and one of the two organized undergraduate orchestras, and have a go at producing an opera with forces suitable to the task...
...dominant. Visiting the dying composer in New York one day, Dorati recalls finding him engrossed in a copy of Edward Grieg's Piano Concerto. Asked why he was studying such a romantic score, BartÓk said that Grieg was important because he had "cast off the German yoke...
Kenneth Kaunda, the president of the Republic of Zambia, once held steadfastly to this belief; in fact, he helped free his colony from the English yoke through non-violent means in the '50s and '60s. A devout Christian--his father was a preacher--committed to non-violence, but also a leader of his people and sworn to ameliorate their welfare, he did not know how he should lead. Thus he found "satyagrah," the creative use of non-violent resistance as a strategy for change, "a life belt thrust into the hand of a drowning men." It worked in Zambia...