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...that the spectacle of another Kremlin power struggle would mar the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution? Nikita Khrushchev took care of it by sending a dog soaring into space with a whoosh that drowned out all other noises. With every beep from Sputnik II the world got a stark reminder of Russia's strength. If they could send 1,120.8 Ibs. (53 times the weight of the proposed U.S. satellite) more than 1,000 miles into space, the Soviets certainly had a rocket capable of reaching any point on earth...
MOSCOW, Oct. 27--The stark announcement of the removal of Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov as Soviet defense chief appeared to Westerners here today to reflect more than anything else the supreme confidence of Nikita Khrushchev that he is boss...
...then a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. A woman who lives half a block away paused one evening to chat with Myers, found on her lawn when she got home a stark sign: "Nigger lover...
...earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature. With his occasional Nordic rages, he sounded like Brahms gone berserk, but he was also capable of a strongly appealing lyricism. His symphonies, with their acrid dissonances, their brassy shouts and cool, lonely instrumentation, seemed even closer to the stark northern land. Although Sibelius testily denied the implication that he wrote music merely descriptive of nature, he would say: "The seasons are like movements in a symphony. Spring is adagio, the fall is scherzo...
...Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne's stark new opera theater, plush-and-gilt partisan Bing said with a shudder: "The sacrifice you make here is glamour. I believe New York still wants its opera glamorous...