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...piano, short (5 ft. 6 in.), 49-year-old Shura Cherkassky looked a little like a pouncing falcon. Perched on the edge of his stool, his face near the keys, he struck thunderous volleys of sound without clouting the keys or becoming percussive and harsh. Unhampered by a span* of only ten keys, he executed impressively agile runs, showed off subtly colored nuances without ever sagging into sentimentality. Headlined Der Tagesspiegel: "A TRIUMPH OF VIRTUOSITY...
Valiant, after starting later and well behind, is beginning to roll; last week's production of 7,000 units edged Chevrolet's Corvair out of third place behind Ford's Falcon and American Motors' Rambler. This fall, announced Colbert, Chrysler will market another compact, the Lancer, as a somewhat larger stablemate for the Valiant. It will have a 30°-inclined, six-cylinder engine turning up 101 h.p., and a price tag just a bit more than the Valiant's factory list price...
...Author Peterson, who is credited with the All-America record for having seen 572 species of birds in a single year, finds Texas bird life more varied than any other state's. It includes such bait for bird watchers as the caracara (an oddball falcon that eats carrion), the chachalaca (only guan in North America), the roadrunner (a giant, snake-killing cuckoo) and the jagana (a long-toed "lily trotter"). Altogether, there are 487 different "basic species" which occur regularly, plus 55 accidentals (recorded fewer than five times), for a grand total of 542 species. This leaves California, notes...
...week went to the Government to complain about foreign tariffs. Before the Commerce Department, the Automobile Manufacturers' Association argued that European duties, purchase taxes and quotas have priced U.S. cars out of the market. Noted the association: with taxes and duties, a U.S. compact such as the Ford Falcon (New York list price: $2,040) costs an English buyer $5,238, an Italian $4,368 and a Frenchman $4,184. Many a businessman feels that unless foreign nations allow U.S. products to compete on equal terms in foreign markets, there will be a rise in protectionist sentiment...
...North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning net (DEW line), beef up the manned interceptor-the F-104 and F106 - by better radar and longer-range airborne, atom-armed Falcon missiles...