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Hanging On. In the swirling Congo, this charge was hard to prove or disprove. But the Belgians did seem to be stalling on their promise to evacuate their troops from the last big airbases they controlled, including the spacious, well-equipped Kamina strip in Katanga. Hammarskjold fired off a stiff note to Brussels, virtually accusing the Belgians of lying in assuring him that all their soldiers had left when, in fact, he charged, 600 remained. Belgium called this figure "exaggerated," replied tartly that insufficient U.N. transport planes had been provided...
...echoes of the great German romantics-Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner-but positioned neatly after their Olympian periods are Ives's variations on Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, even that old Dartmouth drinking song, Where, Oh Where, Are the Pea-Green Freshmen? After passages of spacious solemnity, the horns break suddenly into a capering phrase from Camptown Races; in the midst of the frenzied final movement, doleful woodwinds sound forth with Old Black Joe. Even the ending is typically Ivesian: the entire orchestra comes in with a raucous, jeering cluster of chords...
...boom in junior and industrial baseball has pushed sales up 30% in the past ten years. H. & B. expects to be producing 5,000,000 bats by 1962 or 1963. Though the family-owned company keeps its profit figures to itself, they are hefty enough to keep a spacious box for Bud Hillerich at Churchill Downs, where he likes to get away from it all by sizing up thoroughbreds instead of sluggers...
...latest novel by Nathalie Sarraute, queen of the New Realists, has a plot so simple as to be almost invisible: Will Newlyweds Alain and Gisele succeed in forcing widowed Aunt Berthe to let them have her spacious five-room apartment? Will Alain be accepted in the salon of a famed writer? But the style is as complex as the plot is simple. Author Sarraute plunges deep into the interior dialogue of first one and then another character, while the reader, like a cryptographer, is expected to find clues of identity where...
...tranquilly breathing music, with its long, curving melodic lines running side by side yet independent of one another, its use of Eastern dance patterns, its little swirling eddies of sound. So far, Japanese audiences have not heard the Hovhaness work most frequently played in the U.S.-Mysterious Mountain, a spacious, broadly flowing 17-minute work that conveys an almost Delphian sense of grandeur...