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...members of an elite Bern police squad burst into the building. About eight explosions were heard as tear gas and percussion grenades detonated. Within twelve minutes, the gray-uniformed, red-helmeted troopers had captured and handcuffed four Polish terrorists and were speeding them down the city's normally placid Elfenstrasse...
...movement actually has old and honorable antecedents. In the first of the 48 preludes and fugues that make up The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which...
...fault lies not in the colorful building but in ourselves. Our senses have been dulled by the gray and numbing effect of incessant modernism. The irregular lines of Graves' design are intriguing, the placid colors pleasing, and the size does not diminish us. This happy building is refreshing, not threatening...
...Special Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who stated in June that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to prosecute Donovan. TIME has learned that Silverman's investigators had in fact questioned Nat Masselli at least once in the renewed probe. William Masselli was recently transferred from a prison near Lake Placid, N.Y., where he is serving a seven-year sentence for hijacking, to a Manhattan jail in preparation for his appearance before a grand jury investigating new charges against Donovan. The FBI is looking into the Masselli assassination as a possible obstruction of justice. It is the FBI's second...
PRESUMED DEAD. Calvin Simmons, 32, maestro of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra; missing after a canoeing accident on Connery Pond, near Lake Placid, N.Y. Simmons conducted at England's prestigious Glyndebourne Festival and led many of the major orchestras in the U.S. He gained acclaim for his dynamism and adventurous programming. This month he was to have conducted a work of his favorite composer, Mozart's The Magic Flute, at the New York City Opera. Said Beverly Sills: "Cal had so much to offer. I just can't take...