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...French promised: "It is a matter of prestige." From Hanoi, the French began airlifting soldiers and equipment to Luang Prabang. Inside the Hanoi delta, Giap launched a surprise attack on Kien Airfield, clearly intending to delay air reinforcements to Laos. The Red guerrillas swarmed over the airfield, the finest in Indo-China and specially designed for jet aircraft, and dispersed the guard. They killed 20 Frenchmen, captured and executed Provincial Chief Trinh Nhu Tiep, burned the barracks, set off 3,000 tons of ammunition. A French counterattack killed 212 Viet Minh, captured 125, and regained control of Kien...
Technically, the resulting sound is not binaural, but thanks to the skill and care lavished on both the performances and the recordings, it is some of the finest sound to be heard on records. Cook's first symphonic releases include two potpourris: Masterpieces of the Dance, with such old war horses as the Emperor Waltz and Danse Macabre, and Masterpieces from the Theater, with music from Carmen, La Gazza Ladra and Euryanthe. The major effort is Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, which, despite a too-speedy finale, is the best available LP of the great...
Probably the finest story of the nine is "For Esme with Love and Squalor," in which Salinger best merges humor with tragedy. It tells of a soldier in England, who agrees to correspond with a small British girl, and finds himself opening her first letter in Germany, months later, while he is in a state of shell shock...
Senate Bill 247 has been created and endorsed by the finest legal minds in this state. Judges, lawyers, and interested citizens should not allow it to die a slow committee death as has happened before with similar bills attempting to correct Massachusetts' archaic system of part-time justice...
This week New Orleans will unveil its Kress gift: 31 paintings, spanning four centuries, from the Renaissance's 14th century dawn to the last flowering in the 18th century, and including such greats as Tintoretto, Bellini, Veronese. Two of the finest are Tiepolo's angelic 18th century Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, with its ruddy flesh tones, velvety browns and yellows, and Pannini's The Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome, whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston...