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...Crimson Yardlings scored first on a shot by midfieldman Giles Whalen, assisted by Greg Jackmauh, also a middle, in the first quarter of the game. Although Exeter scored twice in the first quarter, Harvard held them scoreless in the second period while five Crimson shots sped past the Exeter goalie in four and one-half minutes...
...explosante/fixe . . . is scored for eight instruments, each equipped with floor microphones, plus an electronic supergadget called the Halaphone. In the first performance of the piece by the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Halaphone not only transmuted the instrumental sounds electronically, but sped those sounds around the concert hall via loudspeakers pinned to the walls. Boulez remained onstage cuing the technicians. The title of the composition is descriptive: while the violin, flute or vibraphone plays on a given pitch level (fixe), the trumpet or cello explodes (explosante) with violent rhythms or scale passages. But fixation can sometimes change to explosion...
...morning a Jeep sped through An Loc carrying a wounded Vietnamese Ranger sprawled across the hood; two of his comrades had just been killed in a nearby firefight. Highway 13 from Saigon has been closed for nine months; supplies for An Loc are brought in by air-usually dropped by parachute...
Early in the mission, Astronaut Ron Evans made his most notable photographic contribution; he took a picture that will rank among the classics of the space program. As Apollo sped toward the moon after blasting into its translunar trajectory, he pointed his camera back toward home and caught a stunning view of the earth, with the side visible to the astronauts completely illuminated. In crystal-clear detail it shows almost the entire coastline of Africa and the offshore island republic of Malagasy, the Arabian peninsula and an unusually thick cover of swirling clouds over Antarctica and the surrounding region...
When the latest round of talks began, the secrecy surrounding meeting sites was officially abolished. By that time, though, newsmen had become understandably suspicious. Sure enough, Kissinger sped off to an unannounced villa in Neuilly, but the motorcyclists were in hot pursuit. Later in the week, ABC Correspondent Louis Cioffi tried to dangle a microphone into the garden from an adjacent building, but it got tangled in a bush and was spotted by security men. Kissinger kidded Cioffi about this embarrassment, but let the mike stay where...