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...month-long student demonstrations reached a dramatic climax early last week when a crowd of several hundred students at Peking University burned about 100 copies of the Peking Daily, the local party organ. Some made makeshift kites out of the newspaper, set them on fire and sailed them out dormitory windows. The students charged that the Daily had given a "distorted" picture of their movement. Three days later some 200 African students, who have complained recently about racism among their hosts, staged a twelve-mile march through the capital's streets. By week's end, though, the tough new government...
...section now merely as a volunteer. "It's been more difficult for him to replace me, because I'm still here, than for me to step aside," says Vanderveen. But his friends in the choir say singing means more to Vanderveen than he realizes. His key ring is an organ stop labeled "choral bass...
Buswell is unaccustomed to choral singing, and he drowns out everybody else. A few singers simply stop in the middle of a hymn, overwhelmed. Barber glares. Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...
...students broke open the front door of the church at 2 a.m. Saturday and were found inside by the Cambridge Police. The three students, who had been drinking heavily, told police they had broken into the church because, "they wanted to play the organ," said the church's sexton, Francis L. Bannon. Bannon added that someone in an apartment across the street who had seen the students break into the church had called the police...
Father John P. Boles, a priest at St. Paul's, said that the students offered to pay for repairs to the front door and the cost of having the organ checked for damages. He added that they will face charges in court...