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Convinced as ever that his self-imposed exile is necessary ("I know of no Negro member of any leading American orchestra"),* Dixon stubbornly harbors an American dream. "I would like to go back," says he, "leading my own symphony." But despite his dreams, home remains a hilltop house outside Frankfurt, where he lives with his second wife-Finnish Baroness and Playwright Mary Mandelin. And Frankfurt, it seems, is where Dixon is likely to stay. "These people," he says, "are really in the music business...
...apart and climbs back down to earth, was lifting two-ton blocks of Indiana limestone up into the reaches of the cathedral's turreted Gloria in Excelsis tower. When completed two years from now, the 300-ft. tower will soar over Washington, surpassing in height (because of its hilltop location) the 555-ft. Washington National Monument...
Computer talk can be fed easily into the country's microwave relay system, the high, hilltop relay stations that are a familiar part of the U.S. landscape. But IBM engineers decided not to get into ex pensive competition with the radio and TV programs, the phone calls, and all the other electronic chitchat, which now jump in short line-of-sight hops from coast to coast. Instead, the computer men are mak ing use of a basic but seldom used proper ty of microwaves...
According to your article on J. D. Salinger, "only a small group of friends has ever been inside his hilltop house." I must be privileged, then, because a few years ago when our youth group went on a hike, after asking for some water, we were taken into their kitchen and given cookies and something to drink. If we were able to walk through their gate, it seems quite impossible to think that neighbors had to climb the fence to see Mr. Salinger's home...
...when he jeeps to town, he speaks only the few words necessary to buy food or newspapers. Outsiders trying to reach him are, in fact, reduced to passing notes or letters, to which there is usually no reply. Only a small group of friends has ever been inside his hilltop house. Not long ago, when he and his family were away, a couple of neighbors could stand it no longer, put on dungarees and climbed over the 6½-ft. fence to take a look around...