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...Princesa. The message, in black letters fore and aft, was simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded past crowded cafe tables. The consensus was that the man with the sign was out of his head...
Seven British soldiers in postwar occupied Germany are assigned to guard the obsolete, World War II Bofors antiaircraft cannon. Their mission is obviously a useless exercise but the soldiers nonetheless mount their guard in a battered barracks, awaiting the dawn. Thus unwinds a tightly spun military yarn that has a touch of allegory. Shrouded in canvas, the Bofors gun is never seen in its entirety; though it orders their lives, it remains irrelevant to the soldiers, who blandly carry on their battle with boredom. So painstakingly does The Bofors Gun record the brutalizing effects of military routine that...
...most motley. Imagine, for instance, a vocal mixture of Johnny Mathis and Ray Charles with a Latin American flavor and a classical-tinged guitar backing. That musical hybrid is José Feliciano. In recent weeks his single release of Light My Fire and his LP entitled Feliciano! have both spun high on the bestseller charts. He has drawn cheering, sellout crowds to performances at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He seems to be in demand everywhere, for television shows, movie sound tracks, personal appearances...
...Just and the Unjust) are like carefully preserved late-model Packards: grand and stately vehicles that are neither quite contemporary nor completely anachronistic. But always they are models of impeccable workmanship. In them Cozzens' highly polished prose style gleams like a Simonize job; his subtly conceived characterizations are spun like fine grillwork; and his intricately devised plots are so delicately tuned that they can hum and purr when idling...
...developing a "strategy of accomplishment," U.S. architects can draw on a whole arsenal of technology: precast concrete beams that span 100 ft.; cable-hung roofs that carry across distances of 420 ft.; mass-production assembling techniques; and a rapidly expanding range of building materials, from glare-reducing glass and spun plastic to rust-sealing steel. Concrete used as a finished material is already giving visual variety to the city. "It is the most important change in the art of building since World War II," says Architect Marcel Breuer. "You can sculpt concrete, you can mold it, chisel it, increase...