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LAST TIME AROUND (Atco). The Buffalo Springfield have scored again on the last album before they split up. Their transition from folk through folk rock and now to country-western has been smooth going, which is a tribute to their exceptional talents. Stephen Stills, who wrote five of the songs, sings Four Days Gone with down home grit. It is a story song about a boy on the run from "government madness" who can't tell his name because he's "got reason to live." A tinny piano tinkles in the background while a steel guitar twangs...
Agnew's missteps, however, were only minor in an otherwise smooth start to the nine-week campaign. Beside the danger of overconfidence, not a very serious worry, Nixon's main course for nervousness was what politicians are now calling "the Wallace factor." While Nixonites say optimistically that Wallace's strength will soon ebb (see following story), they are coppering their bets, talking less now about a "Southern strategy" and more about a "big-state strategy." Even if Wallace does take Southern states that the Republicans had hitherto counted on, they reason, Nixon can still win handily...
INTRODUCING DUKE PEARSON'S BIG BAND (Blue Note). Pianist-Arranger Pearson, whose previous records featured smaller groups, has gathered 15 solid players in order to amplify his musical ideas. Straight Up and Down is a tidy blend of high-flying exuberance and smooth delivery (note the trumpet's sassy quote of Sweet Georgia Brown and the baritone sax's sly paraphrase of Once I Had a Secret Love). While Mississippi Dip is a blues to be taken lithely, A Taste of Honey switches tempos faster than the foot can follow, building to heated ensemble crescendos behind Frank...
...even that faint feedback carries a definite message. If the signals bounce back polarized-in other words, with their electric fields reversed-they indicate rough terrain. Unpolarized echoes, on the other hand, mean smooth surfaces. In either case, the target areas are pinpointed by a system of coordinates similar to latitude and longitude. One coordinate is located simply by clocking the signal: the quicker it bounces back, the closer the bounce-back point is to that part of Venus nearest to Earth...
...mini-carrier, the landing area is invisible to the pilot, who must rely on hand signals from one of the boat's seven-man crew. Meanwhile, the boat's captain maneuvers his vessel under the skids of the descending helicopter. The air-sea mating has become a smooth routine. In more than 2,000 landings, there has yet to be a serious mishap...