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...CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. The Vienna Octet will present a program of Michael Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert. M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Tickets: $2.00. Call...
Moving now into advanced training. Glenn, Grissom and Shepard will undergo even more rigorous physical and mental testing. They will spend two hours in a superheated chamber (130° F.), withdraw into a dark, soundproof room for hours at a time to test their ability to endure isolation, and will be exposed to piercing, high-frequency noises. They will also get extra time in the capsule simulator, a grounded version of the real space chamber, where engineers will pose a variety of possible equipment failures and the astronauts will have to deal with them...
...news crashed into the Security Council chamber like a thunderclap. There had been more killings in the Congo. This time six Lumumbaists had been summarily executed by little Albert Kalonji, boss of the Mining State of South Kasai. In the corridors, Africans, already convinced that the murdered Premier Patrice Lumumba was a victim of white men's machinations, gathered in angry clusters, and in the chamber, African delegates took the floor to demand U.N. action...
Nehru did little to calm the chamber. "Broadly speaking," he said, the Chinese had at least not advanced any farther, though "I cannot guarantee some little curve in a wasteland." He was pessimistic about new negotiations. But he had no plans to try to drive the Chinese out. "While I admire the patriotism, and emotional upsurge of honorable members who tell us to go and push the aggressor out ... it is not an easy matter to indulge in a policy of action that leads almost inevitably, step by step, to war." Nehru admitted that he had not even bothered...
...stage of London's Royal Festival Hall, father and son appeared in sharp contrast. Playing a reddish Stradivarius, David was short, pudgy and genial; playing a yellowing Guarnerius, Igor was tall, sleek and reserved. For the most part, the carefully selected program of Bach chamber music served to contrast them even more clearly, identify each as a commanding solo artist. Although critics agreed that Igor still has a long way to go before he can challenge his father's mastery, the younger man's forceful, exuberant interpretation of the Concerto for Violin in E neatly counterbalanced David...