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Simple choral arrangements led to triteness: in Sanchez Malaya's Pues Bien Yo Necesito, a movingly bitter solo jarred badly with a sleepy, hummed background. The same happened in The Beggar's Opera songs when several jaunty soloists livened up the bland arrangement of an essentially impersonal chorus. Hearing a full chorus all evening robs music of its feeling because the tone colors and textures are so limited. Too many, groups sound like the imaginative Wiffenpoofs. Glee clubs must use smaller ensembles if they are to be more expressive...
...hotels of Saigon last week were jammed with officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The once-neglected airfield at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, is now receiving a steady stream of Globemasters that unload tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. A U.S. ground crew of 200 lives in tents near by to service the planes and take care of 24 U.S. fighter-bombers and transports scheduled to be turned over to the South Viet Nam government...
...Virgin Islands. The sea change caused by these junketings around the globe is generally favorable to Waugh's writing. In his 1926 The Making of a Matron, he needed 17 pages to dissect the not-too-complex character of a London deb; in 1942, when writing Bien Sûr, he required only six pages to tell infinitely more about a charming, pliant Lebanese girl whose good sense and good nature made war agreeable to Allied soldiers...
...West insists, and rightly, that the commission must proclaim a cease-fire before the 14-power conference begins. It wants no repetition of the Diem Bien Phu disaster: the Geneva Conference in '54 started before the contending armies had agreed to cease fire, and the Communists took advantage of the lull to attack and surround the French fortress. The Russians have stepped up supply shipments to Northern Laos in the past few days, making the case-fire all the more important. And, since there is only light fighting at the present, despite rumors of a new rebel offensive, the cease...
...France, Dr. Jean Carle, chief of the mission to Squaw Valley, exploded at the crowded accommodations. "Can you imagine four women living together in one cramped room for a month? Eh bien, non! Ridiculous!" He also fretted about the disconcerting effect of importing big-time vaudeville acts to the valley: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...