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Launched from Cape Kennedy last March, the instrument-packed Pioneer 10 is scheduled to make the first flyby of Jupiter late next year. But for the next seven months, NASA scientists will be watching to see whether their spaceship can pass unharmed through the 175 million-mile-wide asteroid belt. The greatest danger may not come from any of the 1,831 charted asteroids that range in diameter from one mile to 480 miles, but from untold numbers of tiny fragments, some of them no bigger than a grain of talcum powder. At typical asteroid speeds (30,000 m.p.h.), such...
...grooming its own top executives for broad responsibilities. Most of them are heavily broadcast-oriented, even though in recent years the company has grown highly diversified and now gets more than half of its sales from such nonbroadcast divisions as book publishing, baseball (the New York Yankees), musical instrument manufacturing and motion pictures. Thus, CBS's prime need at the top is financial expertise, a field in which Taylor became almost an overnight star...
...Congress was in session and printed, he says, to "prompt a few young people to enter politics." Yet Riegle's account of his frustrations in one of America's most intractable institutions seems far more likely to turn young idealists away from Congress -at least as an instrument for change...
Mozart: The Four Horn Concertos (Barry Tuckwell soloist, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conductor; Angel, $5.98). As a solo instrument, the French horn lacks the innate variety of the piano or violin. That is a fact to be noted, then forgotten, while listening to this ravishing LP. Tuckwell plays the concertos as though they were as emphatically profound as anything Mozart ever wrote-which in the case of Nos. 3 (K. 447) and 4 (K. 495) is not too far from the truth...
...suspects that Mr. Wright's laudable conscientiousness stems from the unfortunate paucity of masterworks for his instrument: those who have little often appreciate most. And one suspects further that Messrs. Totenberg, Neikrug, and Shure would render quite satisfactory performances of any of the 'best-loved' solo repertoire for their respective instruments--Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Bruch, Bloch, Tchaikovsky....Thus it seems that the relevant question to be considered by performers, critic, and audience alike, is: what, by comparison, is a Brahms trio...