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...their churches for solace. "May the God in whom we believe make clear to us in his own time what this horrible event is to signify to our country and her people," intoned Cape Town's Afrikaans-language Die Burger in an anguished editorial. "Now, we cannot fathom...
HERBIE HANCOCK, MAIDEN VOYAGE (Blue Note). Hancock is-an inventive young (26) modernist best known for his work with Miles Davis. Here he sets out to fathom the mysteries of the sea. His crew of Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams, drums, Freddie Hubbard, trumpet, and George Coleman, tenor sax, pull together perfectly to express a variety of moods-from the quiet swirling sound of Little One to the growling agitation of Eye of the Hurricane. Survival of the Fittest features a Hancock solo that pits one hand against the other in a sort of riptide effect...
...even the U.S. Senate could fathom all the intricacies of the bill's formula. "I think the Senator is partly mixed up with the next amendment to be discussed," said Delaware Republican John Williams last week during the final debate. Replied Vermont Republican George Aiken: "I am thoroughly mixed up, not partly...
Congress' recalcitrance is not difficult to fathom. An election year is not the most opportune time to cut such popular programs as school-lunch subsidies. One reduction proposed by the Administration was aid to "impacted areas"-school districts with heavy concentrations of federal employees. Since 317 of the 435 congressional districts benefit from this assistance, it was no surprise that the House Appropriations
Last week they got their answer - but in a manner so indirect and ambiguous that it took the nation a week to fathom what the President's real feelings and intentions were. Convinced that one of John Kennedy's greatest mistakes as President was his bitter, demagogic con frontation with the steel industry, John son managed to show his strong dis approval of price rises without uttering a single word in public...