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...Handel's 'Concerto Grosso in A Minor,' Op. 6, No. 4, Senturia extracted something rare in student orchestras: a solid string sound. Solos by Lawrence Franko, concertmaster, with the harpsichord, came out clean, vigorous, and straight-forward...
...Like Cattle." The proud and handsome Caraja nation has dwindled in two centuries from 500,000 to 1,200, and its domain, which once stretched 870 miles from northern Mato Grosso to the sea, has shrunk to the shores of a jungle island. Of the Pau d'Arcos, some 3,000 strong at the beginning of the century, a lone survivor remains-an old woman wearing out her days as a stranger in another tribe. Many tribes, among them the Amoipiras and the Potiguaras, live only in the history books...
...Less Human? Others, such as Orlando Villasboas. hold that the Indian mist be allowed to follow his own culture. Appointed director this month of he Mato Grosso Indian Reserve, an area he size of France in which dwell 38,000 Indians, Villasboas is convinced that the reservation approach is the only answer. 'The national park must be made to work," he says. "In Africa they guard animals that way. Are we less human here, that we can't look after our own Indians...
...Sunday's recordings include Mozart, Serenade no. 11 for Winds, in E flat major; Beethoven, Sonata no. 15 in D major; Opus 23; Schuman, Quintet in E fiat major for Piano and Strings, Opus 44; Bizet, Symphony no. 1 in C major; and Bach, Concerto Grosso no. 1 for Strings and Orchestra with piano obligato...
There was small cause for alarm when United Air Lines Pilot John Grosso reported, ten minutes out of Denver, that his Los Angeles-bound DC-8, with 122 persons aboard, had lost most of the pressure in its hydraulic system. The landing gear would still drop into place and lock. Once on the runway, Grosso might not be able to maneuver the steerable nose wheel, but reverse engine thrust would slow his plane down, and a reserve supply of hydraulic fluid would permit some operation of the main landing-gear brakes. As a last resort, the pilot could...