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...begins as an encounter with the police. Yet few citizens realize the policeman's true power, the wide area in which he must exercise his discretion, the largely undefined range of his authority. "Crime does not look the same on the street as it does in a legislative chamber," explains the commission. Police do most of their work in tense, fast-moving situations that have few similarities to a calm court of law. And there are no easy prescriptions for any part of a policeman's immensely varied job. "Keeping streets and parks safe is not the same...
...Chamber Music...
...BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (3 LPs; RCA Victor) have recorded with zest and polish an evening of music ranging in time from Mozart's sunny, transparent Quartet in D for Flute and Strings to the late Irving Fine's romantic and unsettling Fantasia for String Trio (1957). Most fetching of the four contemporary works is Elliott Carter's Woodwind Quintet, with its light melodic fragments breezily tossed and tangled like crepe-paper streamers...
...mistakes Manchester corrects. Further, Manchester reports that Johnson had trouble persuading Kennedy aides to enter the conference room for the ceremony. Not so, says Roberts-who was in the room. Johnson's invitation to witness the swearing-in was so readily taken up that the small chamber was filled...
...funeral chamber" is hung with orange velvet to emphasize the soft transparency of huge alabaster jars. A small rotunda with illuminated parchments re-creates the atmosphere of paintings on tomb walls. The primeval marshes where, according to Egyptian belief, the world began and the dead person's metamorphosis took place, are evoked by a wall of papyrus, which in turn gives way to the dramatic climax of the show: the great funeral mask with its blaze of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. Altogether, it is small wonder that in the first 20 days, some 180,000 Frenchmen have...