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Small but magnum-loaded, the round is one of the most cantankerous in the history of American small-arms. Since 1964, when the Army was informed that Du Pont could not mass-produce the nitrocellulose-based powder within the specifications demanded by the M16, Olin Mathieson Company has supplied most ammunition for the rifle with a high-performance ball propellant of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine...
...only fitting because the horse was Kelso, who retired last year with a record $1,977,896 in winnings. Since then, the 10-year-old thoroughbred has been training for a new career as a show horse and jumper at the Maryland estate of his owner, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont, 53. "I'm just as nervous as if he were in a race," she said. "As a matter of fact, he appears to me as if he wants...
...Another featured performer on the tour: British Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre, 22 (TIME, March 10), Barenboim's bride of two months...
...cares if Leon Kirchner did not phrase the last movement of the Mozart Eb major piano quartet as if it began on an upbeat? And what if Jaime Laredo did force a bit in the suite from Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat? And if the Schoenberg Suite Op. 29 is a little hard to take on first hearing, for petesake go listen to it again...
...Du Pont...