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...20th century science and music. "The two can no longer exist apart," he insists. "Musicians are being forced to recognize all kinds of technical advances. Their job is to catch up with them and guide them." This may be somewhat easier for Xenakis (whose full name is pronounced Yahn-nis Zen-nahk-ess) than for some of his peers. An accomplished architect, engineer and philosopher as well as a composer, he is enough at home with an IBM 7090 computer to use it in calculating his compositions, which owe a large intellectual debt to the universal language of science: mathematics...
...City; Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine America, makes the point that 100 years ago "the Irish were the riot makers of America par excellence...
...sociological phenomenon," says Arthur Ashe Jr. He is a great deal more than that. Last week, on the center court at Forest Hills' West Side Ten nis Club-the same stuffy club that once barred Ralph Bunche from membership-the son of a Negro playground guard from Richmond, Va., established himself as the No. 1 star in one of the most segregated U.S. sports. In a five-set match, Ashe, 25, defeated blond Tom Okker of The Netherlands, 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, for the U.S. Open championship. His victory made him the first...
...George Athanassiadis-Novas, he called 14 politicians from all political parties to the book-lined living room of his Athens palace. There, pouring the drinks himself, questioning politely and listening attentively, he was at his charming, 25-year-old best. So impressive was the King that even loan-nis Passalides, the 80-year-old titular head of the E.D.A. (proCommunist) party, returned, glowing, to party headquarters. Monarchically miffed, a Red colleague snapped: "That's the last time you go to the palace!" Papandreou, a longtime republican, called it all the work of a young and rash ruler...
Ultimate Desecration. But even as his empire dwindled, Hearst maintained editorial control. Each morning he sat in nis San Simeon study, spread the Hearst-papers on a priceless Persian rug and turned the pages with his slippered feet. Memos continued to clatter out over his private Teletype. He kept visitors hanging around San Simeon for days before granting them the audience they sought...