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...since fabricated 30 instruments capable of hooting sepulchrally, barking savagely, trumpeting like a herd of elephants, and even producing echoing sounds of haunting beauty. Baschet dubbed his inventions Structures sonores and organized a small orchestra: his brother Bernard, Modernist Composer Jacques Lasry and several associates. The group is known in France as Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet. It plays some Bach and some Vivaldi−but Baschet's devices are more adaptable to the works of Composer Lasry, which struggle with such titles as Coil Spring Dance and Duet for Crystals...
Hatari! is an African western. The cowpokes (John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Gerard Blain, Red Buttons) do not herd cattle and they do not ride horses. They go bucketing over the Tanganyika plains in Jeeps and trucks to lasso giraffes, rhinos, zebras, wild buffalo and wildebeests for zoos...
...Uzbek Soviet republic, Chairman Hakim Mamadiarov of the Karl Marx collective farm was denounced for living like an Oriental potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate residence, garden, and private herd of cows. Hakim himself has a house assessed at $22,200, plus a Volga auto, two motorbikes, a radio-phonograph console, a tape recorder and several TV sets. Of two peasants who protested his running of the farm, one was badly beaten, the other vanished. Demanding a "full investigation," the newspaper...
...state of virtual serfdom. Cattle feudalism was the basis of the system. The hapless Bahutu were forbidden to own or kill cattle; they could get beef only when cattle died of natural causes. Each Watutsi's wealth, prestige, and political position were measured by the size of his herd, and every cow was regarded as a sister in his family...
...Noxon died when Carpenter was 14. Although his mother was out of the sanitarium by this time, she was still too tired to ride herd on the boy, and Scott cut loose. He told a LIFE reporter: "The local papers that say I was just a normal boy are trying to think of something not bad to say. I had a wonderful time, but I was a real rounder. I didn't study hard, and I had to quit high school football because I couldn't devote myself to learning the plays. I stole things from stores...