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Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late String Quartets, Op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135 (Vegh Quartett; Telefunken, 4 LPs, $27.92). These quartets are the summit of Beethoven's chamber music. It is music that makes no concessions, ei ther to brain or hand, and sets no store by charm. The Végh Quartett makes sense of these bristling compositions with their many movements, many rhythms, many ideas, abrupt changes of character. The group is most convincing in the melancholy opening fugue of the C-Sharp Minor but lacks the emotional reach required by the sudden deaths and harsh...
...between Apollo's 5 p.s.i. and the sea-level atmospheric pressure (14.7 p.s.i.) normally maintained in Soyuz. The same step will be taken during the joint mission before the cosmonauts transfer to the Apollo. Less difference in pressure will reduce the time they must spend in a decompression chamber between the ships...
...student organization. While the forte tutti sections were played with gusto, the subtleties of phrasing, slight accentuations, and nuances in dynamics were never quite made apparent, for fear of sacrificing precision and ensemble. This was also a problem in the pianissimo sections and during some of the solo and chamber passages...
Almost weekly the overpopulated death row at Central Prison in Raleigh grows more crowded. Nine more men arrived last month, raising the total of those awaiting asphyxiation in the gas chamber to 62 men. Two women facing execution are confined in another Raleigh prison. The rapid influx has long since filled the 42 dingy cells in Central's F-block that were originally designated death row, and some inmates are being held in other cell blocks. Says Warden Sam Garrison: "If this keeps up, we will have to start doubling up the men in the cells...
...that it did not apply to him because he had committed the crime before the statute was passed. Since then, he says, "every day has been the bottom pit of hell. I never get away from the fact that the chances are they may march me to that gas chamber...