Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...planning group was rushing to meet a deadline this week set by Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, who created the board last August as a solution to a nagging dispute between the Air Force and the Navy over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The Air Force, claiming the right to hit strategic targets, wanted to put assignment of Polaris targets under control of the Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines...
...Rebel's Conversion. By then Nigerian politics had taken on a permanent three-way stretch. In the Ibo East, Zik's National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons held sway. In the West, the Action Group, headed by shrewd, stodgy Chief Obafemi Awolowo (pronounced Ah-Wo-lo-wo), spoke for the Yoruba people. Northern power then (as now) meant tall, solemn Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna (commander) of Sokoto and boss of the Northern Peoples Congress...
Mercedes McCambridge, who helped run the draft-Stevenson group at the Los Angeles convention, labored dutifully for Kennedy during the campaign, last week said bitterly: "I'm tired of democracy. We should have a monarchy, with Tuesday Weld as one of the princesses and a nice couple from Armpit, Nev. to reign. I have a Citizen Kane feeling about Daddy Kennedy sitting out here directing the show behind the scenes from Marion Davies' house...
...time she entered junior college she was a chorister in productions of Verdi's Requiem, Bach's B-Minor Mass. In those days, she recalls, "if it wasn't classical, I didn't want it." But one night at a party she heard a group of performers from a San Francisco nightspot sing folk songs until dawn, and promptly "fell in love with the music." She put together a sketchy repertory, sang at a few local clubs-"with passionate hate and venom...
...contemporary U.S. composers, Carter (now 51) appears in a work of characteristic complexity and charm. After a series of opening sonorities that explode on the ear, the sonata evolves into a dialogue between the harpsichord-querulous and spidery-and the other members of Carter's oddly assorted chamber group. For all its skirmishing, the sonata has no trouble finding its witty way home...