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Judge Tuttle, chief judge of Atlanta's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, has handed down decisions of the utmost importance for civil rights in the South. He was one of three judges who upheld the public accommodations section of the civil rights act of 1964 in its first court test...
...precision of the Band's performance. Throughout the concert, his conducting was energetic and exact. Even in the most rhythmically aberrant sections of the Creston, Copland, or Hindemith works, he was able not simply to keep the Band together, but to present the various crossrhythms and syncopations with the utmost clarity...
...such phenomena, the film's narrator asserts that "Depression breadlines brought about an age of innocence," which in turn brought fame to Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin and Dorothy Lamour. Obviously Goddesses blunders into some broad generalizations, but it does offer an Olympus of dimpled deities, each doing her utmost to prove that any personable young miss can become a myth with sufficient luck, sufficient talent, of perhaps just a well-placed lisp. Sensation seekers lured by its title will find The Love Goddesses a disappointment. But movie buffs will happily sit through Harlow, Hayworth, Turner, Monroe, Taylor, Loren...
...East German regime. Still, Nasser was moving carefully. He withheld full recognition from East Germany, and in a remarkable aside to Ulbricht, he said: "I needn't explain to you the deplorable and painful circumstances surrounding our relations with the Bonn government. We are still doing our utmost to avoid further worsening in the current state of affairs." He also went out of his way to underline Egypt's "radical differences with Communist ideology. We believe in religion and refuse dictatorship by any class...
Whether the newspaper outcries will be followed up by bolder moves toward decentralized planning remains to be seen. Less easily remedied, though, would be another complaint aired in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Writing from Leningrad, an engineer identified as L. Svetlanov heretically demanded the utmost in decentralization: individual freedom and "live spontaneity" in daily life. Deploring the "rehearsed informality" of Soviet society, Svetlanov described a typical "poetry night" in a Moscow cafe. "After the poets are through reciting," he wrote, "they sit at a separate table and talk animatedly among themselves. A couple of autograph hunters approach timidly. The jazz band plays...