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Southerly Swing. Unlike the Russian Sputniks, which sweep close to the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, the Explorer follows a sinuous orbit around the earth's middle, crossing the equator at an angle of about 34° and coming only as far north as Atlanta. At its highest point (apogee), the orbit rises to 1,700 miles above the earth, descending to about 200 miles (perigee). The round trip takes 114 minutes. This is a "safe" orbit, above nearly all the drag of the atmosphere, and higher than the orbits of the Russian satellites...
BROOKLYN, Jan. 21--Dodgers' vice-president Buzzie Bavasi today came to the defense of the 250-foot left field fence in the Los Angeles Coliseum and, at the same time, took a verbal swing at the complaining National League pitchers...
...booming trade that would exchange Brazil's coffee, cocoa, hides, sugar and cotton for such manufactured goods as "oil-well-drilling equipment and automobiles." The trade offers, suspiciously similar, were aimed at a big target: a country with 100,000 Communist Party members and enough party-liners to swing a tight election. They were shrewdly directed at sensitive areas such as Petrobras, of which the public is fiercely proud. Publicly, Petrobras was cool to the Torgbraz offers, but privately it awaited a top governmental decision. Congressional and army opinion was building up for a resumption of both trade...
Kenny Clarke Plays André Hodeir (the Kenny Clarke Sextet; Epic). A low-keyed collection of nine arrangements of modern jazz works (Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight, Miles Davis' Swing Spring), plus three original compositions by French Hipster Hodeir, Europe's leading jazz critic-composer (Oblique, On a Riff, Cadenze). The emphasis here is on intricately woven ensemble playing, shot through with some fine flights of "written improvisation...
...Marian Anderson, a stout and stately 55, took a relaxed look at this week's film digest of her 40,000-mile triumphal sing-swing through Asia earlier this year and said: "It has the look of having been made with love." So it had. The Lady from Philadelphia faithfully recorded the rich, heart-stirring artistry of the Negro woman who began as a Philadelphia choir singer; at the same time it illustrated how sharper than a diplomat's wile can be the sweet song of a woman of great talent and simple dignity. Contralto Anderson acknowledged...