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...vainly attempted to see him after the march from Selma to Montgomery two weeks ago. "If he had laid it on just a little bit thicker," said one of the delegates, "he would have had everyone in that room run out and vote for him." He did slip once, though, when he told his visitors, all but one of them Negroes, how upset he had been at reports that his highway patrol had recently mistreated a couple of "niggers." Otherwise Wallace was as smooth and strong as bonded bourbon. He even gave the delegates autographed portraits of himself...
...large group of Northern whites and marched to the capitol building without a parade permit. They were scattered and beaten by mounted troopers. Today, more marched and, after the glamor of next week's Selma extravaganza fades, more and more will march, and someday these growing people will slip through the benevolent grip of their secular...
Those who like their lingerie brief and to the point can slip into Warner's combination bra-slip ($11) or Olga's lace-trimmed romper ($6). Finally, Formfit/Rogers has something that occurs in one fell swoop: its so-called "Bathing Suit" ($12.50) is not only backless and practically frontless but scooped away at the midriff until there is almost nothing left. But that, of course, is the whole idea...
Should a soft breeze slip into the library and lure the scholar away, in 1959 Roger Conant Hatch established two prizes for lyric poetry. And, lest equality become too democratic at Harvard, in 1924 Carl Schurz provided a prize for a student meriting the Wilder Prize but not deserving the financial...
Conductor James Yannatos gave the score an energetic and dramatic reading, and the playing was impressively unanimous. The difficult opening of the second movement was phrased without a slip-up. The massive chords that abound in this work were not splattered from one end of Sanders to the other, but placed with such precision that the audience was left stunned by the impact of the finale...