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...case, the sextet navigated Gesualdo's twisting harmonies with usually precise intonation. The pitch problems that did crop up from time to time were invariably failures of individual singers to sustain difficult lines. Unfortunately, the sacred motets that opened the program suffered from exactly this type of difficulty, as did William Byrd's Mass for five voices. With only a single voice for each elaborate contrapuntal line, I Dilettanti were simply unable to maintain the warm blended tone they brought to the simpler, chordal passages...
Admittedly the super-sleek '74 edition of the Crimson thinclads has to be given the edge against an Army team that dropped a 90-78 decision to Manhattan last week. But Army has its share of 9.7 dash men and a bumper crop of under 15 second hurdlers, who could each be good for 15 points...
...revolt but is credited with inspiring it by his publication last February of a book, "Portugal and the Future," which said the wars Lisbon was waging couldn't be won militarily and political solution was necessary. The 64-year-old cavalryman, who wears a monocle and carries a riding crop, rose to lead a junta after the officers who had begun the rebellion called...
...refineries do not have enough capacity to supply unconstrained demand even if the country had crude oil in unlimited quantities. Production of natural gas, the second most important fuel behind oil, is running 5% behind demand. If Americans do not continue conservation measures, spot gasoline shortages could still crop up this summer and electric power would have to be curtailed, causing brownouts and restricted use of air conditioning...
...other hand, there are reasons for optimism. World grain production for the 1974-75 crop year is expected to total nearly a billion tons-31 million tons more than the year before. For the first time in two years there is enough wheat to come close to meeting demand in the months ahead. Australia alone has just harvested 440 million bushels, more than double last year's crop. Adequate supplies of livestock feed also seem likely. Brazil's record soybean harvest is now being sold round the world and, after a disappearance of a year and a half...