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...orchestra. Kratka also sells briskly to schools, libraries, mental hospitals (where Dixieland is used for patient therapy) and to diplomats in remote areas. His most baffling customer: the man who wrote to request Bach's Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin. ''We considered." says Kratka, "sending him a blank record and the score...
...ancient, potbellied C46 of Cuba's nationalized Aerovias Q had barely broken ground from Havana airport, bound for the Isle of Pines with 53 aboard, when five men rushed the flight deck, guns in hand. Two guards aboard the plane fired their pistols. In the point-blank battle, the pilot, one guard and an attacker were killed. Six others, including the copilot, were wounded. Miraculously, the copilot managed to land in a sugar cane field, and the surviving would-be hijackers fled...
...manner of cinema divines and photographers' models in spaghetti ads, but otherwise he shows no evidence of sainthood. He floats through the film wearing at all times a smile of seraphic boobery, and his followers grin constantly at whatever faces them: another actor, a tree, a blank wall...
...gaze blank and pitiless...
...ordinated along the line of the Harvard Houses were the requests for larger dining rooms and longer meal hours. Gracious living as Radcliffe now defines it has fallen from favor. Many a Faculty member shuns the Quad at mealtimes, remembering the night he sat transfixed by eight pairs of blank eyes while the girl on his left politely inquired what courses he was teaching this term. Unable to offset the institutional formality, most 'Cliffies would like to abolish it altogether. Once again the sanctioned motive for revision is the desire to entice the Faculty up to Radcliffe. Many 'Cliffies, however...