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...dreary village of Galánta, Hungary, Composer Zoltán Kodály haunted the local railroad station, watching the come-and-go of peasants lustily singing their folk songs. "I would stand open-mouthed," he once recalled, "listening to the music die away as the train bore them off. But even then it always seemed to me that a thread of melody remained trembling in the air." For Kodály, who died last week of a heart attack at 84, those simple melodies became the wellspring of a creative life that enriched the music of Hungary...
...eight months later, partly because it had muddled the steel industry so badly. The Tories put most of steel back into private hands. When he took over as Prime Minister in 1964, Harold Wilson tried to renationalize steel with his thin majority, but retreated when he saw how perilous ly close the vote would be. Last week, with a healthy majority assured since the March 1966 elections, the Labor Party finally had its way. By a vote of 306 to 220, it rammed the nationalization bill through Commons. To most Britons, the measure seemed almost anticlimactic; there was little fuss...
...entries) a design by Sculptor Norman Hoberman for eight soaring concrete and marble tablets covered with Roosevelt quota tions. "Instant Stonehenge," hooted the critics, and the late President's family turned it down cold. Last week a second effort, by famed Architect Marcel Breuer, was brusquely and unanimous ly rejected - this time by the Washington Fine Arts Commission. Breuer's design envisaged free-standing walls radiating from a central court yard (TIME, Dec. 30). "Pure geometry," he called it, and won approval from the family and the Roosevelt Memorial Commission. Not so the Fine Arts Commission, which must...
...testify against him. Before the trial, Bailey invited a Massachusetts assistant attorney general named John Bottomly to see DeSalvo in a mental hospital. There, DeSalvo tape-recorded confessions to the Boston Strangler murders, complete with so much detail that there could be little doubt that he had actual ly committed them. But before Bailey would allow his client to speak, Bottomly was made to agree that the confession would not be used against DeSalvo. What Bottomly was getting was the opportunity to close one of the most sensational murder investigations in Massachusetts history. What Bailey was getting in return...
...liberalization" is dictated by a desire to accumulate foreign exchange; last year some 2,700,000 Westerners visited the country, drawn by refulgent resorts on the sunny Dalmation coast, casinos, unspoiled countryside and other low-priced attractions, including the first "bunny" clubs in Communist Europe. Yugoslavia is prospering economical ly, thanks largely to Tito's imaginative agricultural and industrial reforms. Yugoslavia claims an extraordinary 1966 economic growth rate of 10%, helped out by a bumper harvest of wheat, corn and sugar beets, plus a surging production of ships, chemicals and petroleum derivatives. A boom has its price, of course...