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...crystal chandeliers. When the tall, blue-eyed boss of the Czechoslovak Communist Party got out of his car, the crowd pressed closer for a better look and reporters broke into applause. Unaccustomed to such public displays, Alexander Dubček, 46, merely tipped his grey fedora, smiled hesitantly and strode briskly inside. More than any other man in Czechoslovakia, Dubček has planned, pleaded for and nurtured the sweeping changes that promise to alter the temper and quality of Czechoslovak life, and perhaps the nature of Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe as well...
Cavernous Congress Hall in down town Warsaw shook with chants and cheers. As the speaker strode to the podium, TV lights glared down upon his balding head and visibly strained face. Then some 3,000 stalwarts of Poland's Communist Party rose to their feet and sang: "May he live 100 years." All in all, it could have been a national birthday party for Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka-but instead it was the tensest moment in his nearly dozen years in power. After eleven days of nationwide student demonstrations, Gomulka, 63, finally spoke out in an effort to restore...
...student some years ago, Ray was in Cincinnati sketching a ballet from backstage when he was asked to serve as an extra-to walk across stage followed by five other striplings all adorned with helmets, spears and quaint buckled shoes. When the big moment came and he strode boldly forward, his feet got snarled in electrical cables and he tripped over the footlights almost into the lap of Senator Robert A. Taft. Hoisting himself back onstage, he tried to recover his fallen armor, only to be thrust forward again by the spear of the young man behind him. The audience...
When the two pop artists first strode out upon the New York City art scene with their motley amalgams of commercial layouts, graphic devices and gigantic blowups, Rosenquist and Lichtenstein seemed as hard to tell apart as Hamlet's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...
...minute rampage, Held displayed the calm proficiency of a man who has mapped his assault in advance. Shot dead were Supervisors Carmen H. Edwards and Richard Davenport, Lab Technicians Allen R. Barrett and Elmer E. Weaver, and Superintendent Donald V. Walden. Picking his targets with care as he strode through the mill, Held also wounded James Allen, a superintendent; Richard Carter, a lab technician; David Overdorf, a machine operator, and a manager, Woodrow Stultz...