Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miranda's name became the shorthand title of last year's decision because his case chanced to be first on a list of four that the Supreme Court considered together. But the other three defendants seem to be little better off than their more famous compatriot. One, Roy Allen Stewart, will be retried in Los Angeles on murder-robbery charges later this month. In New York City, Stick-up-Man Michael Vignera has already pleaded guilty to a lesser robbery charge, and is now doing 7½ to 10 years in Sing Sing; the first time his sentence...
...become the most spectacular male dancer in the West. After performing in Paris with Dame Margot Fonteyn at the Third International Dance Festival, Rudi had a sentimental look at his old Leningrad-Kirov comrades for the first time in four years, broke into wild applause from the audience as Compatriot Yuri Soloviev bounded through Bluebird and Giselle. "They dance so beautifully," sighed Rudi. But he carefully avoided dancing backstage for a reunion...
...Polish: "That was the greatest thing I ever heard!" When the kissing stopped, he introduced himself as Henryk Szeryng, a 32-year-old music teacher at the National University of Mexico. Intrigued at finding a countryman so far from home, Rubinstein inquired: "Do you play at all?" Yes, his compatriot admitted, "I love to play the violin." Rubinstein forthwith invited the violinist to his hotel room for an impromptu audition. Recalls Rubinstein: "He played Bach sonatas and reduced me to tears...
SECRET AGENT (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). This imported espionage series presents Patrick McGoohan as British agent John Drake, who's no match for the U.S.'s Man from U.N.C.L.E. and no kin to his compatriot James Bond. The show, however, is in its first run here, which makes it one of the few new things around...
CARL NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Vox). Sibelius' contemporary and compatriot subtitled his early, danceable symphony "The Four Temperaments" and assigned a different humor to each movement: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic and sanguine (a sanguine man, according to Nielsen, is the sort who believes that "fried pigeons will fly into his mouth without work"). Conductor Carl Garaguly and the Tivoli Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra faithfully reproduce each mood...