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...noise. As the scene of a quadrennial spasm known as the "Fourth Musical Competition of Kerkrade," the town has become the Bayreuth of the marching brasses, the Salzburg of the wood winds, the Milano of the mandolin orchestras. Amateur bandsmen travel thousands of miles to compete in Kerk-rade's concours-this year there were 3,000 of them in 215 bands from 21 countries. When any sizable number of them tuned up and started blasting away together at, say, Berlioz' Roman Carnival overture, the sound smashed across the borders of Belgium and Germany like an invading army...
Penniless bookkeepers excitedly tally the whale's earning powers; children marvel at its youth and strength; bureaucrats boast of its bulky contribution to the economy. Barren women, seeing the whale, nudge each other and say: "There's a man for you!" Only Despic Rade, a civil service clerk, remains apart, at first wishing only to ignore the whale: "What's the whale to me?" But adoration for Big Mac sweeps up around him everywhere, and his outspoken feelings about whales soon darken...
Teddy & Eddie Sir: While watching Eddie McCormack and Ted Kennedy [March 23] drive by us (in separate cars) in the St. Patrick Day's Pa rade, I asked a local labor union president what the smart politicians were doing about the state Democratic primary. His terse re ply: "Leaving town." Boston SPENCER J. SCHEDLER Sir: In Massachusetts you can't see the forest for the family trees...
...since then, Yugoslavia and Canada have been getting along better & better. The two countries have just elevated their respective envoys to the rank of ambassador (for Canada, J. Scott Macdonald will be shifted from the embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the new one in Belgrade; for Yugoslavia, Minister Rade Pribicevic in Ottawa has been prompted). To show its good will, Canada has even sent a gift of 125 tons of codfish to Titoland...
Back to the Sunsets. The flop was loud and emphatic. When the show he called the "Manhattan Pee-rade" decided to continue without him, Arthur says his final chance on a Chesterfield show "laid a terrible...