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...participants in last night's concert were a select number of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra. Most of the members of these groups have a technical competence on the professional level, and musical capacities far above many professionals, enabling them to respond fully to Mlle. Boulanger's wishes. The orchestra was unusually rich and warm in Lili Boulanger's Vieille Priere Bouddhique, and the chorus sang with beautiful tone as always...
...Rate? (Mon.-Thurs., 10:30 a.m., E.S.T.) matched the sexes in frantic little contests of mental and physical dexterity (reading garbled messages, changing light bulbs); Wingo (Tues. 8:30 p.m.) hustled over low-plateau quiz questions (name the first big battle of the Civil War) to select a contestant for the show's big moment-a whack at spelling Wingo by drawing blindly from an assortment of the word's letters. Probability of hitting Wingo and winning...
...think the executive committee is trying to force its opinions on the student body," charged Lionel B. Spiro '60. "We are a 'select' group with varied opinions," noted Paul E. Freehling '59, vice president. "Our votes should be backed by intellectual honesty, by what we think is in the students' best interest...
...week's end WABD claimed that "a lot of people are cheating" by scanning the phone directory and locating winning numbers that would fit the winning numbers. Up came a new rule: henceforth a viewer must select phone numbers only from the column in which his own name appears...
...question of what kind of federal agency should control the U.S. space offensive burst on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue last week. Under discussion by a select and secret committee set up by the President and chaired by Scientific Adviser Dr. James Killian were four possible answers...