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...subtly shifting balance of up to eight voice parts from being clearly perceived, especially in the intricate In Ecclesiis and Jubilate Dco. Nevertheless, these works achieved a tremendous excitement, due in no small part to the assistance of an excellent brass choir. The Gabrieli Benedictus and O Jesu Mi Duleissime, on the other hand, were realized with a greater transparency of texture, perhaps because the vocal masses were more evenly balanced against each other in these works. Also, in the case of the Benedictus, the choirs were distributed in three parts of Sanders Theatre while in O Jesu the size...
...Alaska's rich mineral wealth oil has been the hardest to come by. Since the '20s, several companies have drilled its public lands, but all gave up. The only oil that has been found is on the U.S. Navy's 37,000-sq. mi. reserve at Point Barrow. It has cost the U.S. $50 million in eight years of development...
...north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet. Floodwater lapped at the outlying parts of Rotterdam (pop. 650,000) and poured over Dordrecht (pop. 70,000) a little to the southeast. In a matter of hours, roughly a sixth of The Netherlands' 13,000 sq. mi.-an area where 1,000,000 Dutchmen make their homes-was devastated...
BETWEEN the Sahara and the Union of South Africa lies Tropical Africa, where a quarter of a million whites rule 150,000,000 blacks. Ethiopia and tiny Liberia are its only independent states; the rest (some 6,500,000 sq. mi.) is ruled by four European powers: Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal...
...Eight "master blocks," each covering about 1 sq. mi. and having at its center a school, churches, recreation area and swimming pool. ¶Three or four "neighborhoods" of 400 to 600 families within each master block. ¶Segregated areas for business and light industry. ¶A main shopping center (55 acres) conveniently located near the downtown business district. Some 500 applications for space have poured in from merchants; the city's shopping center will probably become a center for all of lower Bucks County within a radius of 15 to 25 miles. There will also be small groups...