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...least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest. An extremist white mob met in a Lusaka movie house, angrily blamed its troubles on the United States Information Service, which had been 'Inflaming Africans." Warned Welensky: "The gong has only sounded for the first round...
...seaport of Jaffna, an angry mob of 3,000 Tamils, a linguistic and religious minority, battled police in protest against the substitution of Singhalese for English as Ceylon's official language. There were other problems. Mrs. Bandaranaike had been confronted with a sitdown strike when she forced the nationalization of 700 Roman Catholic schools. Opposition parties in Parliament offered a motion of no confidence, hoping to bring her down, charging the government with trying to protect M.P.s who had been found guilty of bribery and corruption. The cost of living rises steadily...
...something that will make the world weep," he instructed his librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 18th century play, as in the Puccini score, there are more hints of harshness and modernity than in any of his other works-shrieking harmonies; a howling, fickle mob; even political irony, as when the three comic but cruel ministers complain that the graveyards are full because of too many executions. And yet, try as he might, Puccini could not write ugliness. He remained, happily, a prisoner of his melodious gift, and tenderness keeps breaking into the nervous, jagged moods...
Fire & Ink. As if at the push of a button, turmoil erupted in dozens of countries on five continents. In Moscow, a mob assaulted the Belgian embassy, smashed windows, and broke bottles of ink against the walls while militiamen stood by and watched. The demonstration was so well organized that whether the students from Africa were French-speaking or English, they showed up with placards (see cut) in English-for the benefit of U.S. TV cameras. Hours later, similar crowds were in action in Belgrade, Amsterdam, Paris...
Student/Faculty Contact. In the New College dining hall, tutors not only get special food and wine but they also sit at a 'high table,' segregated from the undergraduate mob. Most of the students whom I interviewed only knew one faculty member personally: their tutor...