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Ravel: Schéhérazade (Suzanne banco, soprano; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Three lovely songs with luxuriant orchestral accompaniment: Asie is an extended sigh for the exotic pleasures of the Orient; La Flute Enchantée is played with caressing delicacy by the beautiful slave-girl's lover; L'Indifférent subtly describes a handsome stranger who bypasses some unspecified hospitality...
Such reactions are essentially the same whether caused by weightlessness, a rough sea or an obnoxious mother-in-law." Inside Problem. Generally, the experiments indicate that a human who can see or touch something to orient himself will be able to fight down the warnings from a sensory system gone haywire in weightlessness (much as a pilot learns to fly his airplane by what his instruments tell him even though this contradicts what his balance system tells him). Scientists are not yet clear what may happen without any touch or sight reference-for example, to a man inside a free...
Died. Msgr. Antoine Pierre Arida. 91, bearded patriarch of Antioch and all the Orient, spiritual leader of some 500,000 members of the Maronite rite of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the Church's eight patriarchs, who rank just below the College of Cardinals; in Beirut, Lebanon...
...year shy of 90 years ago, in 1866, close games were a rarity. That year the Crimson played against the Orient Club of East Boston, which could have used a Ward or two. Or maybe a Butters or eight. At any rate the final score was Harvard 97, Orient...
Sixty-eight years passed before any other "Orient club" played the varsity. In 1934 the squad went to the Philippines and Japan to meet 16 of them. The team was good enough to win a 9-0 decision over the Yokohama Country and Athletic Club. No other Crimson nine can make that statement...