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...football music was superb. Dave Keller and Ed Flitton led the drum section to new heights of virtuosity, and the band has not played with better balance or more spirit for years. For the first time anyone could remember, the audience forced an encore after the playing of "Fair Harvard...
...attempts to block bank mergers, with the Federal Reserve Board about whether banks should be allowed to underwrite state and municipal revenue bonds, and with the Securities and Exchange Commission over whether bank stocks should be regulated by the SEC. Last spring, after Saxon asked regional banking supervisors to drum up support for him among the national bankers, he came within a digit of being sacked by President Kennedy...
...Royal Drum...
Slowly at first, and then more quickly, the drums began to throb and the horns to bray. Deep and profound through all of it rolled the resonant bass of the "tambari" (the Royal Drum) which was held by the tribe in an almost religious awe and took the whole skin of a full grown ox to dress each surface. The tambari is the repository of the basic tribal esprit de corps and is held in both reverence and affection...
Imagine a circus being performed in an operating amphitheater. It seems a bit clinical, but that's more or less what has been happening since the Great Moscow Circus arrived in Manhattan last week. Americans accustomed to the fanfaring, drum-rolling, three-ring mesmeric confusion of the P. T. Barnum tradition are asked to crowd in close and watch single acts performed in a small single ring. Whole tiers of the high seats at Madison Square Garden are deliberately left unsold. There is no parade. There are no spangled multitudes. There are no barkers, and even the soda-peanut...