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...week produced other thrusts between the U.S. and Cuba. In Washington, Cuba withdrew from the null Bank. At the U.N., Foreign Minister Raúl Roa asked for immediate consideration of an alleged plot by the "Pentagon and U.S. monopolies" to launch a "large-scale invasion" of Cuba "within the next few days." Roa cited an alleged arms drop on Sept. 29 at 2 a.m. on the slopes of the guerrilla-speckled Escambray hills "by a four-motored aircraft of U.S. registry coming from the U.S. and piloted by U.S. airmen...
Chippy's professional reputation was never touched by scandal. Once, when he discovered that a jury had been "spotted," he instantly informed the judge and withdrew from the case. Author Lewis believes that, despite the invaluable services he rendered to organized crime, Chippy had a high respect for the rights of society. The trouble was that he had a stronger feeling for the rights of the criminal. Why? Perhaps partly. Author Lewis suggests, because of his own youthful delinquency. In Chippy's obituary, one of his legal colleagues feelingly phrased the thought: "As he stood...
...stooped man in the crumpled grey suit stood on the stage of London's Royal Festival Hall, bowing gently and solemnly to the welling applause. Twice he withdrew, and twice he returned, walking with awkward, nervous steps. If Dmitry Shostakovich was surprised by the ovation, so was his audience by what it had heard: the Shostakovich Concerto for Cello, being given its London premiere, was one of the most immediate concert hits in years...
...rumpled storm cap, a fishing net he used as a prop. These were the artist's simple possessions-and for long periods of time, his only companions. "That Duck Pond." To his friends, there was always something of a mystery about why he suddenly quit New York and withdrew to Maine. Some said it was because he wanted to cut down on his drinking; others claimed he was miffed at the critics; Homer himself said it was to escape jury duty. Actually, his father had years before bought a cottage on the peninsula, and Homer fell in love with...
...ornaments in Bruges for the marriage of Charles the Bold to Margaret of York. He rose swiftly after that, carrying on the trend to greater humanization (see color). But Hugo van der Goes was obsessed by the belief that he was damned. At the peak of his fame he withdrew to a monastery, where kindly monks played sweet music to him when his black depressions came. He died in 1482 hopelessly insane...