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...first half of the program thrust us into intermission in the wake of a rather dreadful anticlimax, the Suite in B-flat for thirteen winds by Richard Strauss. This childhood product suffers from the uneasy mixture of a strong Brahmsian influence with overly thick scoring in all but the last movement. The work occasionally possesses a deep sable ambience characteristic of Strauss and is permeated with his incomparable horn writing, but the material is for the most part as boring as a bog. Strauss' penchant for opaque writing, as if he feels guilty when someone isn't playing, only redoubles...
Other winners for Harvard included senior Pete Lazarus, whose vault of thirteen feet could not be matched by any other competitor. Lazarus pushed his mark to fourteen feet in competition against himself, however, before failing...
...they rule against Baird, they will have accepted the traditional arguments--that statutes against contraceptives inhibit illicit intercourse, and therefore properly aid the state in furthering morality in the Commonwealth. The arguments on that side are briefer: they make up a thirteen-page document by Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. Nolan...
Rick Jurgens, recovered from trouble some leg injuries that bothered him throughout the dual meet season, led the Harvard effort in 20th position. His time of 15:46 was the best recorded by a Harvard freshman on the three-mile Van Cortlandt course this year. Thirteen seconds behind Jurgens was Britisher Alan Long in the number 30 slot...
Robert Kennedy's somber vignette is part of his personal recollections of the missile crisis six years ago. McCall's, which publishes Bobby's "Thirteen Days" this week in its November issue, paid $1,000,000 for the 21,000-word manuscript. The private glimpses he gives of President Kennedy's ordeal are almost worth the money. In straight forward language, and with sharp perception, Bobby recounts the events that brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the edge of nuclear...