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...Norwegian had obviously never visited Northbrook, III. (see box, page 51), which produced Dianne Holum, 20, Anne Henning, 16, and three other members of the U.S.'s 16-mem-ber speed-skating team. Dianne turned U.S. fortunes around in short order. The smoothly striding brunette put on a strong closing drive in the 1.500-meter race to win the U.S.'s first gold medal with a new Olympic record time of 2:20.85. Then it was Anne's turn. Matched with Canada's Sylvia Burka in the 500 meters, she lost at least a full second...
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was bound to be criticized no matter how he selected the 87-mem-ber press party to accompany Richard Nixon to China. After all, there had been 2,000 applications. But when the list was announced last week,* correspondents complained that Ziegler had violated his pledge that preference would be given to news organizations that regularly cover the White House...
Howard Shirley, the principal character of One Hand, has little to recommend him except a photographic mem ory, which he uses to store the minutiae of literary history. He spews back information for prize money on a TV quiz show and then parlays the winnings into a fortune at the races...
With any concert involving organ in Mem Church there are serious problems for the audience. The Fisk instrument has two entirely separate characters. In Appleton Chapel, it is a magnificently powerful baroque organ. But for the majority of listeners in the nave of the Churc, the top-heavy registrations are not backed with sufficient fundamental tones to carry through sucha a large structure. The result is exactly what happened last Wednesday: the small group in Appleton is far more satisfied with the playing than the bulk of the audience who are listening, essentially, to a scaled-down version. The performers...
...Mem Hall and baroque opera have one thing in common: both are absurd. Plodding, unsubtle, ridiculous plots in unvaried da capo musical structure keep works like Handel's Acis and Galatea out of the usual repertoire. But given a performance (even in concert form) of last Monday's quality, many of the better points of the genre can be exploited...