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...Xhosa tribesmen of Transkei, seeking a Prime Minister for South Africa's first "self-governing" Bantustan (TIME, Nov. 29), last week gave an overwhelming majority of their votes to Paramount Chief Victor Poto. But as it turned out, Poto did not get the job. Instead the office went to Chief Kaizer Matanzima, the candidate preferred by the South African government. Poto wants white men and white investment capital in the Transkei, while Matanzima, a black racist, supports the idea of an all-black state...
...never been very popular in Gabon, even among nonsports lovers. About 2,000 Congolese were shunted into hastily assembled concentration camps, then shipped down the Africa coast to a Congo port. The Congo in turn retaliated against Gabonese citizens living in Brazzaville. Mobs ripped into the Gabonese neighborhood of Poto-Poto, devastating shops and homes and injuring dozens of Gabonese. Only the intercession of Congo President Fulbert Youlou prevented a massacre. "Try to control yourselves," soothed Youlou, "and we will emerge greater because of this trial." He proclaimed a day of mourning for the Congo's "national martyrs...
...Attilio Poto ended his five-year career with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra last night. The concert's final piece was Beethoven's seventh symphony, performed in a manner which revealed a good many now-familiar characteristics of Mr. Poto and his orchestra; the out-of-tune winds, the unclear articulation in the strings, the surprising power in forte passages; the clear, business-like beat of the conductor. Given these conditions, the last movement, with its big tuttis and its motor energy, came off best; delicate, involved sections fared less well. It was the performance of a good amateur orchestra which...
...concert opened with the Faithful Shepherd Suite of Handel-Beecham, and this noble music was generally well played. The audience was highly enthusiastic, and, at the close of the concert, joined with the orchestra in giving Mr. Poto a standing ovation...
Judges in the contest were Attilio Poto, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music. The orchestra will play "Variations on a Melody" at its annual spring concert in Sanders Theatre. On the same program it will present the winner in its concerto contest...