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Organist Weinrich recorded 76 separate Bach pieces, or about one-fourth of all the master's organ music. Last week the first two LPs of the series were released, containing the 46 chorale preludes of Bach's Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book). Organist Weinrich's performance is as pure and concise as Bach is supposed to sound; the distinctness of his contrapuntal lines sets off the daring harmonic progressions that so dismayed Bach's congregation, as well as the surging emotion. The recorded sound is sweet and-being hi-fi-a little bit clearer than...
...grant that the University recently received from the Ford Foundation cannot prevent the tuition increase, Bundy continued. He explained that the money is "mainly for increases in faculty salaries," and that "it will allow us to do about one-fourth of what we believe to be urgently necessary in this one area...
...one exhibition run, General Motors' 400-passenger Aerotrain streaked over the Pennsylvania Railroad from Washington to Philadelphia in two hours-as fast as the crack Congressional Limited. The same day, another Aerotrain rolled out of Chicago over the tracks of the New York Central and highballed 284 miles to Detroit in four hours, an hour better than the fastest passenger express. Even more impressive than its speed is the Aerotrain's low operating cost. For the Chicago-Detroit run, fuel cost only $18, about one-fourth the costs of a conventional^ train. G.M. engineers estimate that the Aerotrain...
...inflate the stature of their stooges, the Russians slipped them some of their supervisory chores, notably the issuing of permits for the canal barges that bring roughly one-fourth of all West Berlin's supplies across East Germany. That left the hand of German Communists resting on Free Berlin's lifeline to the West...
...Argentina ended 1954 with $42.4 million in credits from her dealings with the Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland. The Argentines shipped nearly all of the agreed-upon quantities of meat, hides, cheese, lard and linseed oil, but the Russians sent only one-fourth of the promised oil, lagged on deliveries of coal, steel, chemicals and machinery...