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...York City has just passed a new ordinance permitting a merchant to sell "any property" on Sunday if he "keep another day of the week as holy time.' But many a New York City storekeepe has long stayed open on both Saturda] and Sunday, anyway, reluctantly pay ing an occasional $5 fine when a police man checks on his trespasses...
Ginastera works over his compositions for three or four hours each morn ing. He spends the rest of his day at the Latin American Center for Higher Musical Studies, which he founded in Buenos Aires two years ago to provide a place where Latin composers might study without losing contact with the musical spirit of their continent. Teaching is a passion with him, but it is a passion he permits himself only because it allows him to continue composing. "I write as a spiritual necessity," he says, "and above all I want my work to be understood. The music must...
What were the official visitors learn ing? Skeptics suggested that junior officers would hardly furnish them with anything but a rosy view so long as the boss-General Harkins-was hovering within earshot. But McNamara and Taylor are tough-minded men, with long experience at sorting fancy from fact. So far, they were keeping their counsel, doing lots of listening, little talking, as they moved from one military field headquarters to another...
Loving parents gloat over the baby's encouraging growth and happy gurgles as they put him to bed. He is obviously in the best of health. At the next feed ing time, they are shocked to find him dead in bed. Such "crib deaths" happen in the best-doctored countries and to the best-cared-for babies. And most can never be explained. In the U.S. alone there are 10,000 such deaths a year, and they are so baffling that 50 U.S. and British medical experts met recently at the University of Washington to try to decide what...
...given last year, but certainly welcome this year, is Gov. 121, "Bureaucracy," an understanding of the contents of which is prerequisite for success in anything. On the necklace of history courses at eleven, the brooch is History 184a, which emphasizes Chinese thought from the Han dynasty to the Ch'ing dynasties. For diversion there are introductions to Czech and Polish (Slavic Ca and Da) and Hittite (Linguistics 225). The last presumes no previous knowledge of cuneiform and should just round out you Gen Ed program...