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...dreary village of Galánta, Hungary, Composer Zoltán Kodály haunted the local railroad station, watching the come-and-go of peasants lustily singing their folk songs. "I would stand open-mouthed," he once recalled, "listening to the music die away as the train bore them off. But even then it always seemed to me that a thread of melody remained trembling in the air." For Kodály, who died last week of a heart attack at 84, those simple melodies became the wellspring of a creative life that enriched the music of Hungary...
...ranch house" with a patient wife, a confused teen-age daughter, a supply of Picassos, tabs from the liquor store, and his mate's meddling analyst. "Asleep in the dell of respectability," he awakes with a whoop after making it with Gwen Hunt, a former Dixie-belle show gal turned Girl Friday Night for the ad-agency boss...
...weeks ago several major suppliers increased the price they charge dealers by six-tenths of 1? per gal., or about 2.5%. Except on the West Coast, which has long been a price-war battle ground, the increase has become general over most of the nation - meaning that motorists will be paying 1? per gal. more for their...
Tougher Taxes. The gasoline producers have been anxious to beef up their profit margins ever since 1965, when a long and costly series of price wars finally faded away. Though retail prices, excluding taxes, indeed rose nearly 4% during 1966 to about 22.1? per gal. -matching the high 1957 level - the suppliers have a number of problems. Demand continues strong and refineries are being forced to pay more for crude oil. Labor settlements early this year have increased industry wages by 4%; dealers, also squeezed by higher wages, have long been screaming for fatter prices at the pump...
...recession and, in many cases, going on shorter work weeks, new-car registrations plunged 14% last November, and VW's sales at home fell to a record low of 16% of its production. The measures imposed by the hard-pressed government pushed gasoline prices up by 40 per gal., and German car-insurance companies this month raised their rates by as much...