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Host was Colombia's newly inaugurated President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, who, with Frei, was joined by Venezuela's President Raúl Leoni, Ecuador's former President Galo Plaza Lasso, who substituted for Ecuador's Interim President Clemente Yerovi Indaburu, and Peru's former Premier Fernando Schwalb, who was filling in for President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Among the balls, banquets and other ceremonial gatherings, the five met to discuss mutual economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled...
Last year Adial E. Stevenson received honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Two other statesmen, Romulo Betancourt, former president of Venezuala, and Galo Lasso, former president of Ecuador, also received honorary...
...RENAISSANCE BAND (Decca) contains pictures and demonstrations of archaic instruments such as the sackbut, the shawm and the krummhorn, which are used to play dances by Michael Praetorious, madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, and a solemn "battle symphony" by Heinrich Isaac probably performed during a play by Lorenzo the Magnificent (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have composed a similar work). Recorded by the New York Pro Musica under the direction of its founder, the late Noah Greenberg...
...steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle and bareback bronc riding), calf roping is the most delicate and difficult. The "calves" are mean, 300-lb. Branguses that can smash a man's ribs or knock out half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts can do the whole...
ORLANDO Dl LASSO: PROPHETIAE SIBYLLARUM (Nonesuch). This chorale, in which the sibyls prophesy the birth of Jesus, has a directness and atonal quality that make it sound startlingly modern. The Prague Madrigal Choir sings with cutting clarity...