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...predicts that some $3,000,000 worth of buildings, windows, and furniture would be bomed out of existence on every day of full national SST operations. And in addition to this house-shattering, Shurcliffe says that chickens will suffocate in boom panics, cattle will stampede, and fish will flee from boomed water areas...
...contracts was escorted by Mexican policemen across the international bridge at Laredo, Texas. He was immediately arrested by the FBI. Morton Sobell, then 33, had been in Mexico for two months, using a string of aliases. The U.S. Government was later to contend that Sobell had been planning to flee behind the Iron Curtain after six years of spying for the Soviet Union. Sobell vigorously denied the accusation, but his trial for espionage resulted in a 30-year jail sentence. Morton Sobell was soon forgotten by most Americans. Last week, a revenant from oblivion, he stepped...
...medium between lyric singing and his own device of sprechstimme, by setting his expressionist text to notes of various vertical distances above and below a reference line. The work, described as "savage" in the program notes but bordering on melodrama, describes Schoenberg's raging desperateness as the Jews flee Nazist Warsaw, and his resumption of the Jewish faith in the face of this tragic modern Diaspora. This profound personal utterance seems to suffer from the same type of self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned...
...payments into line, and the value of the dollar may be threatened. Though the U.S. payments ran slightly in surplus during the July-through-September quarter, much of this was due to such temporary factors as the turbulence in Czechoslovakia and France, which caused considerable European capital to flee into U.S. stocks, bonds and banks...
...Bologna, students occupied the universities to drive home their point. Next came the turn of state employees to demand more pay and social benefits. For 24 hours, trains halted, mail distribution stopped, schools were deserted and telephone service snarled. Reflecting the crisis of confidence, capital once again began to flee from the country, and the Milan stock market slumped to a three-year low. In the middle of it all, the government resigned...