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Chinese Legs. The experience has made them true international troubadors. Their repertory of songs is staggering. They sing in 27 different languages, including Batak, Luo, Amharic and Kis-si, and play such native instruments as the Indonesian angklung and the Chinese ch'eng. The neck of Crofut's banjo is fashioned from a leg from a Chinese table, while the frets are made out of toy railroad tracks from Korea...
...dance-written on the seven-tone pelok octave and played on bronze percussion instruments-which has the simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its grief through a long series of delicate ornamentations. An ancient song of the Batak hill people, accompanied by a wooden xylophone and split cymbal, is strikingly like the melancholy music of Provencal shepherds...
Waving red flags in the streets of Batak, Bulgaria, last week, a group of Communists were routed by the local police. Thereupon they snatched a stork from a good citizen's rooftree, colored it red like their flags, set it free...
Wily indeed were the Communists of Batak. Throughout Central Europe this superstition prevails: that the house upon which a stork rests is bound to be a happy home. Fearful of Batak's wrath should they shoot the stork, policemen chased it up & down the streets. When they drew near, it flapped quickly to a housetop. Reserves were called; at latest reports last week the entire gendarmery of Batak was still stork chasing...
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