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...Friendship. Then, in an even, quiet, almost confidential tone that rang with a New Hampshireman's twang, Adams began reading from a prepared statement. "I have tried, throughout my service in the Government of the United States, to treat everyone courteously and to perform any requests which have been made of me efficiently and in accordance with the rules which I believe pertain to my particular activity." His voice sharpened, and his wide-set blue eyes darted up and raked the faces of the seven subcommittee members: "Is there any member of this committee who has not made...
...nights and without the knowledge of her aging husband, lures in passing bucks with a wave of her crimson scarf, symbolizing her occult powers. After a postman spends the night, the husband rebels; the wife silences him by strangling him with her scarf. At Spoleto last week, the postman rang the bell twice-both as to libretto (by Poet Harry Duncan) and music. Composer Hoiby's score was deft, dramatic, highly descriptive, reminiscent of Gian Carlo Menotti, who taught Hoiby at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. The opera had tension as well as lyric elasticity, especially when the postman...
...enticing Leland away from his church with a $75-a-month allowance and the promise of a $25,000 job in Mr. Werner's ironworks in Milwaukee (TIME, July 1). Mary's father filed a countersuit, the litigation was dropped, the wedding bells (Lutheran) rang...
Back in March, the Capitol rang with feverish cries for damn-the-deficits measures to end the recession. Texas' Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, galloping into the leadership vacuum created by the White House's late-winter indecisions, loomed tall in the saddle at the head of the Democratic antirecession troops. The Capitol's leaderless Republicans milled about restively. Pundits predicted that a tax-cut epidemic would break out on Capitol Hill, and the Administration's foreign aid and reciprocal trade bills seemed doomed to hatcheting...
...jubilant crowd poured from the high school into Fontana Square, scarcely 50 yards from the U.S. embassy, greyclad Republican Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...