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...trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated the performers to inventive improvisation...
...approved by a NATO council meeting in Lisbon in February 1952: 50 divisions, half of them active, by the end of 1952, increasing to 70 the next year, to 97 by the end of 1954. Three years later, Lord Ismay admitted: "The Lisbon goals are as dead as a dodo." * All atomic weapons would not only be U.S. made, but also U.S. triggered. By act of Congress, no other nation is allowed in on U.S. atomic weapons. Gruenther would like to change this out-of-date provision (which irritates allies and complicates procedures) so that Canada and Britain, the other...
...beyond the wildest dreams of the ex-Marine ecologist. His assignment: to travel through the Near East and Southeast Asia, paying calls on animals threatened with extinction, and try to figure out how to keep them from following the dodo. Last week Talbot was back in the U.S., having escaped extinction himself on several occasions by a narrow margin, and bringing curious tales about the "fossils of the future." Rhino & Cures. The biggest of the threatened animals is the Indian rhinoceros, of which only a few hundred survive. A creature that only an animal man could love...
First [the Dodo] marked out a racecourse, in a sort of circle ("the exact shape doesn't matter," it said), and then all the party were placed along the course here and there. There was no "One, two, three, and away!" but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over...
With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for-perhaps-the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race. No one announced that anyone was running, but there was a persistent clatter of hurrying feet in a sort of circle...