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Into Turin's busy streets last week strode 50 pimps, pickpockets, smugglers and assorted minor menaces, happy advance guard of some 1,000 jailbirds who will be turned loose this month thanks to a new law that faces up to an economic fact of Italian life: a day's work-even in jail-is worth more than it used...
Scheduled to come on during the second half of the program to play the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. I (which, along with the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 3, is still his big showpiece), Cliburn artfully delayed his appearance for several suspenseful minutes after the lights went down. Finally he strode boyishly out, all arms, to thunderous applause...
...threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take deepest interest," he told President Kennedy, "in what goes on in this country-and especially what you do, sir." Then he strode to Kennedy's new bubble-topped Lincoln and plunged into a giddy, four-day whirl unrivaled in recent capital history...
Christ or Caesar. As Theologian Barth strode in, wearing his usual rumpled summer suit without a tie, his shock of grey hair was its customary bird's nest. Barely acknowledging the thunderous ovation that greeted him, he began his lecture on ethics where he had left off the day before, on the phrase of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come." Christians, he said, should act not according to rigid principles, but only according to what their faith tells them is God's will in Jesus Christ. "Christians should be free," he said, "to give an attenuated...
...into his glass-walled office in Léopoldville, chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President Joseph Kasavubu sulked and hurled insults at the U.N. One afternoon Colonel Joseph Mobutu strode into Dayal's office, asked for a slug of Scotch, and announced that a coup d'état would take place within ten minutes...