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...organ and obliged. After his final scheduled piece, Newman announced, "We have to get out at 10:50. Those of you who want to, stay. I'll play Bach's Klavierubung until then." As an afterthought he added, "Come on down front so you'll be nearer the music." Hundreds did, sitting in front of the stage and in the aisles while Newman's hands and feet flew over his instrument's quadruple keyboard and pedals...
Life in the government-run refugee camps located nearer Saigon is little better. The An Loi camp, on a barren plain 30 miles east of the capital, has more facilities than most because it is easily supplied from Saigon and the government has tried to make the camp a showcase for its refugee program. An Loi also benefits from volunteer doctors, nurses and students who have pitched in to help. But for the 13,000 refugees who live there, it would be hard to find a more dismal way-stop on a journey seemingly without end. The camp is filled...
...with Soviet help and become increasingly hostile to the international consortium. Last year, relations were rubbed raw by a slowdown in the growth of world demand for oil. In Iraq's northern fields-the ones now nationalized-IPC cut production by 11%; but in the southern fields, nearer to Persian Gulf shipping points, it raised output by 74%. Despite the fact that Iraq's revenues rose 64% to $909 million, the Baghdad government was miffed by the new arrangement. It insisted that the cuts in the north were IPC's retaliation for the loss of concessions...
...litigation fails, the two women will try to get a change in zoning rules that would set up a five-mile green belt to protect Barnesville from the machine. Meantime, the Gem crawls ever nearer the road. It is already so close that motorists sometimes stop to marvel as the Gem's giant bucket dips and crunches into Ohio's good earth...
Crimson coach Steve Gladstone would venture no prediction for Saturday and has felt the pressure this week, as starting time draws nearer and nearer. The Goldthwait action could turn into the closest race ever of his Cambridge reign...