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...harpsichord or pianoforte and improvise on their own works. Bach, Handel and Beethoven were as well known for their improvisations as for their written compositions. Now Composer-Pianist Lukas Foss, 38, is contriving, with the help of a $10,000 Rockefeller grant, to put the long dead custom back into classical music-and make it an en semble...
...shindig in the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted an astonished Dag Hammarskjold with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof he is your friend, but when he goes outside you can slit his throat...
...Liberals could bring themselves to demand only tax cuts; social benefits, they said, should be left untouched. "You can have either left-hand or right-hand traffic in a country," said Socialist Premier Tage Erlander, whose country is the last in continental Europe where traffic still follows the British custom and keeps left. "Whoever insists on driving in the middle of the road will find life riskier than he supposed." Last week in a record 81.7% turnout of voters, Erlander's Social Democrats won exactly half, or 116 of 232 seats. With Communist support on some issues and Liberal...
...efforts is that the major shockers concern a servant girl who becomes pregnant, a woman who bears a Mongolian idiot, and a young man who will not admit that he is a homosexual. Novelist Metalious shows herself to be a woman of taste in telling this last episode; her custom is to describe heterosexual claspings in considerable detail, but after the smoldering line, "Come here, David," the young invert's carrying-on is swathed in silence...
Long Shoals, which makes yarn for weavers, has suffered no loss of custom ers because of its move. Explains Buck: "Most people forget we sell a lot of stuff to Japan. A man told me I was wrong to do it. I asked him why. He said. 'We fought a war with those people.' I said we fought two wars with Germany, and I lost a brother in the last one, and you bought a boiler from them. He said, 'That's different.' So I told him, I'm look ing ahead, not backwards...