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...seriousness of the World War II era. Today the Beatles' cunning collages piece together scraps of tension between the generations, the loneliness of the dislocated '60s, and the bitter sweets of young love in any age. At the same time, their sensitivity to the absurd is sharper than ever...
...even sharper departure from Big Beat banalities came as Tunesmith McCartney began exhibiting an unsuspected lyrical gift. In 1965, he crooned the loveliest of his ballads, Yesterday, to the accompaniment of a string octet-a novel and effective backing that gave birth to an entire new genre, baroque-rock. Still another form, raga-rock, had its origins after George Harrison flipped over Indian music, studied with Indian sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and introduced a brief sitar motif on the 1965 recording Norwegian Wood. Now everybody's making with the sitar...
Apparently convinced that he needs sharper scalpels, Gowon, who has been refused arms by the U.S., has turned to the Soviet bloc for help. Last week the Kano airport was shut down for the arrival of secret cargo. The secret was soon out. The cargo included two dozen obsolescent Russian MIG fighters and six Czech L -26 jet trainers that can be fitted to carry bombs and rockets. With them came some 150 Soviet-bloc mechanics, many of them with small arms in holsters at their waists...
...contrast between the G.O.P. in Congress and the state houses could not have been sharper. Rebuffed in his efforts to get the National Governors Conference to act urgently on the ghetto crisis, New York's Nelson Rockefeller, chairman of the G.O.P. Governors' policy committee, brought together seven of his moderate Republican colleagues,* all but one of them from urban states, to Manhattan for a day-long conference on what the states can do about slum problems...
...indomethacin (Indocin), when injected into animals, all cause the release of an enzyme which is itself inflammatory-though all are prescribed as anti-inflammatory medicines in arthritis. This, he declared, is puzzling to the point of being "intellectually unpleasant." Dr. Arthur Bogden of Worcester, Mass., made the paradox still sharper. If hydrocortisone and aspirin are given to laboratory rats under certain conditions before they have arthritis, both have anti-inflammatory action. But after the rats have their arthritis, the hydrocortisone raises a certain enzyme level used as a measure of drug activity, while aspirin pushes it down. How to determine...