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...North Carolina had enforced law and order. Just two state troppers did the job and no one got hurt in a situation where normally (in the South) a lot of Negro blood would have flowed. The city closed the pool for the rest of the year and we withdrew the picket line...
...seems to stand for sensible reform; at his worst, he indulges some of the erratic whims of a Jânio Quadros, Brazil's mercurial onetime President, who abdicated in 1961. Before the election, when a priest called Bosch a "Marxist-Leninist." he became so inflamed that he withdrew completely from the campaign-only to return to the race a few days later. Periodically, he has gone on verbal rampages, lashing out at his country's rich, criticizing the Alliance for Progress, and denouncing a big contract recently signed by Standard Oil of New Jersey and the provisional...
Bartok composed the Scherzo when he was 24, entranced by the windy sonorities of Richard Strauss, and he filled the work with rolling Straussian orchestrated sounds. But the scheduled 1905 premiere never took place. At the last moment, Bartok withdrew the Scherzo, because Hans Richter (who was to have led the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, with Bartok at the piano) had not had time to study and annotate the master score and there were many mistakes in copied parts. That same year, Bartok discovered folk music, and his infatuation with Strauss ended abruptly. There were no requests to revive his unplayed...
...press conference President Kennedy said there has been "no influx" of Russian weapons into Cuba since Khrushchev withdrew his offensive missiles. By the "best information we have," said Kennedy, only one Soviet ship that might have carried military cargo has arrived in Cuba since then, and "there is no evidence that this ship carried any offensive weapons." But after a briefing by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and CIA Chief John A. McCone, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis announced that his Senate Preparedness Subcommittee will investigate the "buildup of military might in Cuba...
...close friend of Nasser since the days when they shared an office at the Staff Officers College, Egypt's West Point. Though Younis had never sailed so much as a rowboat, Nasser picked him to run the busy waterway shortly after the British and French ship pilots withdrew from the canal in September 1956. At first, Younis had available only 26 trained pilots of the 250 normally required, but he kept the canal functioning around the clock. "I didn't know anything about ships." he said. "But I did know a lot about movement control from the army...