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...second half of the program the HRO, Yannatos, and Miss Owen proved that they could do more than entertain. They played Mahler's Fourth Symphony--a technically demanding, emotionally difficult work. The first movement was characterized by the precisely drawn contrast between the rich, sweeping romanticism of the strings and the sharp clarity of the brass and woodwinds. The orchestra demonstrated perfect control in responding to Yannatos' variation of tempo and dynamics...
Relations with the Communist bloc are also thawing. Although the Caudillo has not gone so far as to establish diplomatic contact, Spain has opened commercial offices in both Budapest and Warsaw, and allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria to send trade missions to Madrid. Spanish soccer teams often entertain Russian opponents these days, even though it means flying the hammer and sickle over Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The Catholic newspaper Ya, which, like the rest of the Spanish press, had for more than two decades been forbidden to publish a Russian dateline, last month opened its own Moscow...
...favored Bruins, who entertain Ivy crown hopes, were never ahead. At 6:52 in the final quarter they caught up with the Crimson, tying the score at 6-6 as a Brown attackman coming down the middle in the clear took a pass from the right side and scored...
...south in the fall of 1564. Having admonished his sailors to "serve God daily and love one another," he seized 300 hapless Negroes on the Guinea coast and went "bulting" off to Hispaniola, where he traded them for sugar and spice. The Spanish authorities-whose custom it was to entertain a foreigner with "a stake thrust through his fundament and so out at his necke"-sharpened their preparations. In 1568, Hawkins and his flotilla of six vessels were accosted by "thirteene greate shippes." In the ensuing scuffle, Hawkins lost four vessels, but six Spanish ships were blasted...
...least some students at coed Duke University share Goheen's doubts. In a letter to the Daily Princetonian, three disillusioned Duke males cited "the facts: Females having the required intellectual aptitudes to compete successfully in your classrooms will not exactly measure up to the dreams you entertain while reading Playboy." The number of girls admitted to Princeton would necessarily be only a fraction of the male enrollment, they pointed out, so competition for their favors would make the males feel as though they were "trying to get into a free exhibit at the New York World's Fair...