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...this friendship, requested that Pakistan not carry out nuclear tests of its own, what did Pakistan do? It humiliated America in front of the whole world and went right ahead with its nukes. This proves that Pakistan is certainly no friend to the U.S. and no ally. BHARATI SINHA ROY Mumbai, India...
...exemplified by Roy Lichtenstein's Vicki!! I-I Thought I Heard Your Voice!, comes into vogue...
...DIED. ROY EVANS, 88, world's savviest table-tennis champ who paddled his best point off the court: in 1971 he landed the U.S. team an invitation to play in China, paving the way for Nixon's historic visit the next year; in his native Cardiff, Wales. A cutthroat competitor, Evans bristled at the term Ping-Pong diplomacy (he considered Ping-Pong an "awful" name) and, in fact, was disappointed in the storied match, grumbling that the Chinese gave away points...
...plane crash in 1959, and Berry, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis were all otherwise sidelined, there was no gaping lack of good music around. In 1963--the year before the Beatles broke Stateside--the charts were filled with great records by the Drifters, the Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Motown's Miracles and Martha and the Vandellas, and celebrated Phil Spector girl groups such as the Crystals and the Ronettes...
That is why Armstrong remains a deep force in our American expression. Not only do we hear him in those trumpet players who represent the present renaissance in jazz--Wynton Marsalis, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton--we can also detect his influence in certain rhythms that sweep from country-and-western music all the way over to the chanted doggerel...