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...shed his sympathy for labor. "I'll be honest about it," he says. "It's obvious that any man takes to any job an essential set of attitudes. I have not brainwashed myself." But Arthur Goldberg, a supremely confident man who peers with owlish wisdom from behind horn-rimmed glasses, insists that he can still work with both management and labor with evenhanded justice: "Administrations are for all the people, and labor and management will both be making a mistake if they believe that the Kennedy Administration is going to be pro-labor...
...official Soviet silence, ordinary Siberians knew nothing about the explosions. They kept doggedly at their tasks of plowing virgin lands, tunneling through mountains, erecting steel mills and bridges, building new cities and rebuilding old ones. On Vladivostok, dozens of new apartment buildings climbed up the wooded hills overlooking Golden Horn Bay. The citizens of Omsk, surrounded by a treeless steppe, were paving more and more streets with asphalt in an effort to end the dust storms that have plagued them for centuries. Irkutsk swarmed with thousands of students beginning the new school year at the city's three universities...
...studded with frustrated performers who yearn for a chance to sing with a full symphony orchestra, toot a hot horn with a jazz combo, or play with a professional chamber group. Now they can do all three without ever leaving their homes. The missing thrill is provided by a Manhattan recording company called Music Minus One, which does 90% of its business in releases from which a voice or a single instrument has been purposely omitted...
Mozart: Concertos for Horn and Orchestra (Albert Linder, horn; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vanguard). The four concertos Mozart wrote for horn are all beauties -full of pert, charming and sometimes humorous ideas put together with faultless style and taste. Danish Hornist Linder does them justice...
...turning them into pigs to feed the inhabitants of a land called Burumatare. Tribesmen were told that the whites roam the countryside with a machine that looks like a camera but which actually makes an indelible mark on the bodies of potential victims. Later a lorry arrives. When its horn blows, all those marked will be irresistibly drawn toward it and abducted, later to be injected with a solution that transforms them immediately into swine. "We must believe that the Europeans have invented this thing," explained one Southern Rhodesian native, "because only Africans have fallen before its evil...