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...record 650 happy, mix-it-up summer students attended the first School mixer last Tuesday, and mixer officials yesterday predicted an equally high turn-out at the second extravaganza tonight. Beginning at 8:30 p.m., the three and a half hour long get-acquainted party will cost but 50 cents, accompanied by a privilege card. Grad students can mingle for free Saturday at the Radcliffe Graduate Center...
With all your excellent coverage of the Keeler-Profumo extravaganza [June 14], how could your reporters possibly have missed getting her vital statistics? Deplorable...
...there remains cause for U.S. pondering. Despite Cooper's feat, Russia still owns the most spectacular space achievements. Last year two cosmonauts simultaneously swirled in space in a fine exhibition of launch timing-and both orbited longer than Cooper. Almost certainly, another Soviet space extravaganza is ahead. But Russia has never done much more than tell the world of its space successes-via verbal reports-and last week's Cape Canaveral launching was seen by millions overseas via Telstar television. It was a display of free world candor and confidence that undercut the post facto reports of Soviet...
Salgueiro's extravaganza costs something like $140,000, more than a month's wages contributed by each member of the samba club. The money comes from savings, from stickups, from the world's oldest profession, from pay-as-you-guzzle drinking parties. But everyone contributes, and everyone wants to dance. Says Salgueiro's Carnival Director Joaquim Casemiro, known to his fellows as "Droopy Drawers": "I direct them only with a whistle. I don't need a gun or a knife. I've never had to shoot anyone yet in Salgueiro to get them...
Zoltan Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite, best described as an interminable joke, constituted the second half of the concert. The suite recounts in six programmatic movements some tales of the Hungarian folk-hero Hary Janos, and is as much of a musical extravaganza as those tales were tall. "A magnificent orchestral sneeze"--a cross between an orchestra tuning and a radio warming up--opened the fairy tales. In the "Viennese Musical Clock," the percussion section went admirably wild; but the music beneath, no matter how heavily sugarcoated, tasted stale. The third movement, "Song," and the dance in the fifth, however...