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...Tibet's fate were not reminder enough of the penalties of flouting authority in the Communist world, word leaked from Budapest of a new mass trial of workers from Csepel Island, the industrial area that held out longest against the Russians in the 1956 revolt. The score of terror: ten death sentences, 25 prison terms ranging from two years to life...
...Choral Society. Their entrances were crisp, their diction clear (including every umlaut), and their pitch perfect. Their dramatic "Barabbam" at the turning point of the drama was frightening, although Mr. Munch spoiled part of its effect by having the organist hold the chord for ten seconds--perhaps the longest quarter note in history...
Nobody stages better murder trials than the British, or writes about them with a more intriguing combination of solemnity and excitement. The 1957 murder trial of Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the longest (17 days) in recent English history, was easily one of the outstanding legal dramas ever to be seen at London's Old Bailey. Its major appeal did not rest on sex, money or gore; it came from the encounter between law and medicine, two intricate, big, imprecise and sometimes deadly disciplines. British Author Sybille Bedford, noted for her brilliant novel The Legacy (TIME...
...scheduled tour would have taken ten to twelve weeks, would have included a two-week stand in Moscow, plus such stops as Milan, Athens, Berlin, Brussels and Paris, and probably Cairo, Baalbek, Santander and Warsaw. It was not only the longest European tour ever scheduled for a U.S. orchestra, but also would have been the Chicago Symphony's first overseas tour in its 68-year history. The only trouble with it, argued 7O-year-old Conductor Reiner, was that it would leave the orchestra "miserably worn out" for its regular Chicago season. The explanation did not satisfy the musicians...
Despite the rising demand, the consumer price index inched up only one-tenth of 1% in January, to 123.8% of the 1947-49 average, still below the peaks of last July and November. The price index has ridden on a plateau for the past nine months, the longest period of price stability since the U.S. started to compile monthly figures...