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...most exciting chamber music recitals in the U.S. originate in a wooden box in a small, white clapboard cottage in Vermont. Into the box go requests for performances of everything from Mozart to Schoenberg; out of the box come twice-weekly concerts played in a converted cow barn by some of the world's most famed and gifted instrumentalists. Last week the barn echoed to Beethoven's Sextet in E-Flat, Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Occasion: a concert at Vermont's Marlboro Festival...
...there were still grave dangers ahead for the fledgling nation. Moise Tshombe, premier of rich Katanga province, whose mines provide 60% of the Congo's income, still threatened to secede rather than hand the province's revenues over to a powerful central government. "The Katanga cow will not be milked by Lumumba's serpents!" cried the secessionists, and reportedly they had the encouragement of some white businessmen. In reply, Leopoldville officials sent jets roaring low over the region in an obvious show of force...
...expanded astonishingly. Britain has doubled her aid in less than three years, Germany has more than doubled hers. The United States has been giving more purely development aid, as distinct from balance-of-payment-bailout aid, than at any time before, including the era of the Marshall Plan. The Cow of public capital to the poorer part of the world is immensely greater than at any other time in history...
Alvin Rodecker, musing over the luncheon at Le Pavilion, turned cheerfully to his wife. "Holy cow!" he said. "That was expensive. But it was worth it. We're really celebrating." At that instant the plummeting dumbbell cracked his skull. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but Rodecker never regained consciousness, and 24 hours later he was dead...
...parking lot (50?), expects 85,000 visitors on good days, an average of 37,000 (v. 60,000 tops at Disneyland). Many of the park's features are undisguised advertisements : ye olde brewery is built and operated by Schaefer beer; Elsie the Borden cow is the most conspicuous resident of a Midwestern farm; the Bank of New York operates regular banking facilities (the building is ancient, but the interest is modern); the clocks in the Chicago and San Francisco railway stations bear the monogram of the Hamilton Watch Co. Nonetheless, three staunchly anticapitalist preview visitors were impressed; they were...