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Emotion & Poise. Pianist Cliburn played the two main pieces with which he won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3. The conception in both was sweeping, the technique so sure that he rippled off the Rachmaninoff without cuts and with the finger-cracking cadenza that the pianist-composer himself chose not to play. Despite a few nervous smashes in the opening Tchaikovsky, he played with such bravura and nuance that the audience paid him the rare tribute of thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed...
...month. But last week Griffing announced that he was giving up; his brand of pay TV has not paid off. Despite a slash in price to $4.95, only 800 of Bartlesville's 28,700 citizens bought-only half the number needed to make cable ends meet. The two main factors that killed telemovies in Bartlesville were competing movies on free TV and the lack of a metering device that would permit set owners to pay only for movies they want to see. Subscribers complained that to get their money's worth they felt compelled to watch every piped...
...Timanus' own figures were shocking, he had others that were more so: he personally knew a physician who had done, he estimated, 40,000 abortions in 50 years. One of the main problems of the conference was to find out how many abortions are performed annually in the U.S. Commonly accepted figures run from 200,000 to 1,200,000. In the end, the experts could only agree that the number must be astronomical...
PILOTS' STRIKE at Western Air Lines has ended after three months. Main issue was pilots' demand that Western's soon-to-arrive Lockheed Electra turboprops carry three pilots instead of two (TIME, May 5). In settlement that is important to whole industry, pilots agreed to put off debate until 60 days before jets arrive, and then to fly them while negotiations proceed...
Cheating at Games. An icy eye for the main chance and a fanatic's ambition were the talents Buonaparte brought to post-revolutionary France. "Can one be revolutionary enough? Marat and Robespierre, those are my saints!" he proclaimed at the Siege of Toulon. The sentiments gave him his general's epaulets at the age of 24. But witty young Victorine de Chastenay, with whom Napoleon played parlor games, was quick to see that "the republican general had no republican principles or beliefs...