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Larousse Encyclopedia of Music. Edited by Geoffrey Hindley. 576 pages. World. $19.95. A potpourri of minstrels and melody that manages to make the songs of old Provence seem as delectable as poulet a la proven∧ale. So too with musical greats from Palestrina and Purcell to Wagner and Webern, in a handsome treatise that is informed and comfortably free of jargon. This is primarily history, not a quick alphabetical reference aid (readers wanting that should try the Oxford Companion to Music). The knowing may regret the cursory treatment of American music and wonder, say, why Stravinsky and Berlioz...
Both the album and the group were received with less than overwhelming enthusiasm, and Atlantic, their recording company, rushed out another album, One Way or Another. Still, no success. Finally someone down at Atlantic wised up, and for Cactus's third album, Restrictions, they brought in Geoffrey Haslam, one of their best staff producers, and Eddie Kramer and Dave Palmer, two of the finest engineers in the business...
...with long-term manpower trends. The Labor Department was shopping around for a new man to handle current employment statistics. Meanwhile, Peter Henle, the BLS's chief economist, who often disagreed with White House assumptions, took a leave of absence to do private research until, as BLS Commissioner Geoffrey Moore said, "an appropriate new assignment" is arranged...
...British D16 (equivalent to the CIA); the letters stand for Secret Intelligence Services. Also known as "The Old Firm," as referred to by British Ambassador Sir Geoffrey Jackson, when he said he had been relying on it to secure his release from the Tupamaros in Uruguay...
...Tupamaros looked like Ku Klux Klan men in their masks," recalled British Ambassador to Uruguay Sir Geoffrey Jackson, just released after spending eight months as a captive of the urban guerrillas. "They would have killed me, certainly, at any moment if there had been an attempt at rescue." Yet Sir Geoffrey insisted that he "never for a minute" felt that he had been abandoned by "dear old H.M.G." (Her Majesty's Government). His room was uncomfortable: "I slept on polyfoam padding, which was damp and after a while stank. I had a 2-ft. by 6-ft. space...