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...commissioned from Composer William Kraft. Accompanying the first movement of Contextures, subtitled "Riots-Decade 60," was a color film in which abstract patterns had been scratched, brushed and drawn on celluloid, and punctuated with black and white stills of last summer's riots in U.S. cities. Accompanying the nonstop fourth and fifth movements was an exacting film inspection of Painter Reginald Pollack's works on the themes of segregation and violence-closeups of hooded Klan marauders, straining limbs, the curled bodies of innocent victims. "It's a social allegory," says Composer Kraft, "and as I was working...
...United, and American, the airlines that specialize in long-haul, nonstop flights, will not change their present half-fare plans...
...sense of despair is deepened by the growing realization of just how destructive the Communist Tet offensive really was to South Viet Nam's life and institutions. To houses, schools and hospitals, the damage is far greater than from any single action during almost three decades of nonstop warfare. The country's budding industrial economy is all but shattered. The number of new homeless refugees now clogging city slums stands at 650,000 and is still climbing; and there were already 800,000 refugees pre-Tet. Saigon has not even begun to calculate its civilian dead...
What with Burgess and Maclean, Gordon Lonsdale and George Blake, Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, Britain's postwar years have often seemed to be a nonstop series of spy scandals. None of them ever produced the fascination and national soul-searching, however, that have marked the case of Harold ("Kim") Philby, the Communist double agent who became chief of British counterespionage operations against Russia. After four months of coverage by the British press, Philby's remarkable exploits are now the subject of a debate about the nature and value of the British Establishment, the traditional ruling class...
...steady 14% a year, the carriers consider air buses their best hope of avoiding menacing traffic jams in the skies between major U.S. cities in the '70s. Though primarily developed for hauls of 250 to 1,000 miles, the DC-10 will be capable of flying nonstop from coast to coast, carrying 250 to 300 passengers at speeds of around 600 m.p.h...