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Baldwin was continuing to produce concert instruments of indisputable excellence, and had indeed introduced in its Model SD-10 the most remarkable breakthrough in a century of piano manufacture. After all, only a piano as revolutionary as the SD-10 would have attracted artists like Byron Janis and Andre Watts...
...occurrence. In addition to the traditional hardships of the concert circuit - captious critics, eccentric plane schedules, hotel-room mix-ups - pianists have lately been coping with a rash of recalcitrant and faulty instruments. "Twice in two weeks I've had the keys come right off the piano," says Byron Janis. "In Flagstaff, Arizona, I was in the middle of Rachmaninoff's G-Minor Piano Concerto when all of a sudden a tiny jagged piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before. A week later at the University of Maryland, a bass...
This season the wondering has turned to wonderment as Weiskopf has put together the most spectacular streak since Byron Nelson took eleven straight tournaments in 1945. Over the past three months Tom Terrific has won five of nine tournaments, including the British and Canadian Opens. During that string he never finished lower than fifth, has averaged an extraordinary 68.8 strokes per round and has amassed $200,210 in prize money. "I know the wheel's going to fall off one day," he keeps saying. But still he keeps rolling. After two rounds in last week's P.G.A. Championship...
Though he clearly wanted public endorsement for his proposed government, Papadopoulos appeared only once on TV. He took no other part in the campaign. He wanted to be "a good sport," explained Information Minister Byron Stamatopoulos. "Since he has no opponents, it would not have been fair" to campaign too much. To which cynics replied that there was no reason for Papadopoulos to campaign any harder...
...deciding last year that a grand jury could require a senatorial aide to testify about non-legislative affairs, Justice Byron White observed for the majority that "the so-called Executive privilege has never been applied to shield Executive officers from prosecution for crime." In another case requiring newsmen to answer grand jury questions, White, again for the majority, indicated that "in proper circumstances a subpoena could be issued to the President of the United States." And in the Pentagon papers case, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger criticized the New York Times for failing "to perform one of the basic...