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...form here, and we'll let you know if you're selected for one of our shows." The girl turned dejectedly away and was joined by her tense-lipped mother, who slipped a coat over the girl's shoulders and spoke to her in a fierce whisper as they went out the door. The next aspirant, a moon-faced young man, was already at the girl's place before the studio mike. He burst thunderously into the Largo al Factotum ("Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!") from The Barber of Seville...
...Communist, Arkansas Democratic Senator John L. McClellan bitterly decried "convicting people by rumor and hearsay and innuendo." When Mrs. Moss admitted that she knew a Negro named "Rob Hall" (whom Cohn identified by name as a representative of the Communist Daily Worker), a reporter reminded Democratic members in a whisper that the Worker's Hall (its longtime Washington correspondent) is a white man. Cohn blandly promised to "check" the discrepancy...
...taverns and coffee shops all over Spain's capital last week, once respectable customers were sidling up to waiters and barkeeps to whisper the cryptic words: "Any orchard chops?" Often as not, the bartender would reply 'with a knowing wink and lead the customer around to a hidden door in the back of the shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp...
...position democracy's defenders, the Christian Democrats, are themselves riven by conflicting philosophies, contradictory aims and quarreling personalities. For six months they have hardly governed, and merely held on to power by a melancholy juggling of parliamentary numbers. Order, purpose and initiative trickled out of government like sand whispering through the neck of an hourglass. Last week the whisper grew to a crash. Premier Giuseppe Pella and his government resigned; Italy was left leaderless...
Among technology's dubious gifts to the 20th century is an ever-growing array of devices for snooping: wiretapping refinements, tiny movie cameras, camera film that takes pictures in the dark, microphones so sensitive that they can pick up a whisper through a masonry wall, tape recorders so compact that they will fit into a coat pocket. Long before 1984, the state of affairs depicted by Novelist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four will be a technological possibility: "You had to live ... in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard . . . every movement scrutinized...