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...average week, our queries evoke a response of more than 700,000 words. The writers and editors in New York select the best and freshest of this material-much of which first sees print in TIME-combining it with their own information and judgment to tell the story of the world's week...
...Schutz have been producing offbeat concerts successfully on the premise that there is a sizable audience willing to buy programs first and names second. To reach that audience, they adopt tactics that would horrify conventional concert managers, who like to play it safe by riding war horses. Typically, they select the music first, then find accomplished but lesser-known performers to play it. Their first venture, in 1962, was a concert of all six Brandenburg concertos, which one critic forewarned them was nothing but "a lot of Bach and potatoes." But it was all gravy for Hoffman and Schutz...
...madness, apartheid breeds more apartheid. Recent government edicts have ordered professional associations to expel African doctors and lawyers and have imposed segregation on charitable institutions. Before the current session of Parliament is a bill to further restrict the voting rights of the Cape Coloreds by allowing the government to select the candidates for their four white representatives in Parliament...
...headlong progress hit a not-so-grand pause. Columbia Records ignored him, and indeed, Lateiner, who was shy and knew nothing of the ways of self-promotion, never even tried to get his recording contract renewed. For several years he seemed merely to hover on the fringes of the select circle of U.S. pianists; he never quite won the measure of popular acclaim that went to others of his generation, such as Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Last month, when he called his manager's Los Angeles office, a new switchboard operator asked curtly: "Who are you and what...
Marbury contended that the proposal to select Federal jurors at random from voter registration lists rather than relying on prominent citizens to recommend them--as is now done--would lower the standards for jurors...