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...elision. Her musicianship showed through especially in the pedalling of the second movement and throughout the cadenza of the first. The orchestra, despite an irresistable tendency to rush, supported her quite well. The soloist herself took command when the Adagio turned into an Andante in restoring the original tempo...
Natural gas is one of nature's richest prizes, and the hunt for it increases in tempo as the world's need for power grows. Right now, the biggest, the most expensive and the most melodramatic search is taking place in Europe's North Sea. Convinced that the North Sea covers the world's biggest bubble of natural gas, such major oil companies as Esso, Shell, Texaco and British Petroleum are scrambling to win a share of it, plan to spend $100 million on exploration and test drilling in the next three years. The stakes...
...increased tempo of the fighting raised new doubts about the Saigon regime's ability to win with American advice and equipment alone. Last week, at Manila, South Viet Nam got at least some moral support from the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization at its tenth anniversary conference. Summarily rejecting a call by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a "political solution"-in other words, neutralism-in South Viet Nam, the seven other SEATO powers (U.S., Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan) vowed that "the defeat of the Communist campaign is essential not only...
...peasant settles down on the padre's church steps, the city throbs to carnival tempo. It is a feast day. Some newsmen hear of Ze's plight and exploit him in headlines as a Communist agitator, a heretic, a miracle worker; then the pimp instigates a riot that ends in Ze's death. Here, the usual Christ symbolism is seized upon, but Director Anselmo Duarte brings it off feelingly as the sullen, silent crowd carries the dead man in to fulfill his promise...
...When the second act begins, sunlight has replaced the moon, everyone is cranky and bored. Songs in a jazz tempo replace the ballads of the first act. Everyone's nerve ends are exposed in the superbly done number "This Plum Is Too Ripe," which has few words and punctuates its gripes with "Sorry." And the wall is built a new (this time it is a wall of bricks and not of fancy) while the boy and the girl turn to the "real" world, she to an affair and he to the open road...