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...Ormandy. "What cadenzas?" replies Johansen. His score does not happen to include them. At this point, Ormandy says that he is having a heart attack. But the one-hour rehearsal goes on, with Ormandy concentrating on the passages where piano and orchestra play together. A messenger is dispatched to obtain a score of the cadenzas. Later Johansen practices backstage, then hurries to the hotel for his tails, which are due back from the valet. No tails. Back to Philharmonic Hall for more practice. Several of the Philadelphia musicians offer to lend Johansen their tails. None fit. Says Ormandy...
...process of adjusting to University life. Living in Wigglesworth, right in the Yard, he finds no difficulty in getting around with a cane, which he claims is both simpler and easier than a seeing eye dog. A prospective English major, David so far has been able to obtain most of the books he needs in Braille, and uses only one reader (a person who reads to a blind student) a week. He also makes use of Talking Books--a program sponsored by the Library of Congress which puts literature on records for the blind. Eventually David would like...
Vogel said, however, that since information on Communist China is hard to obtain, students need to be given a background before they can have any intelligent discussion. The same lack of information, he added, has made past student papers disappointing...
...missile arsenal beyond present plans. All of this is at least generally in tune with Nixon's campaign talk about a "security gap." Both men are aware, of course, that buying these and other weapons systems would cost tens of billions that would be almost impossible to obtain under present circumstances. Thus a wholesale expansion of arms development and procurement is unlikely...
...foreign travel. From now on, Czechoslovaks are prohibited from taking trips to the West "not conforming with state interests." So confident have the Russians become that they returned sovereignty over the country's airspace to the Czechoslovaks themselves. This means that Czechoslovak pilots will no longer need to obtain air clearance from Soviet officials for every flight. Moreover, Moscow summoned home its viceroy in Prague, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, apparently satisfied that his job is done for the time being...