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Harvard supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) decided last night to switch the main thrust of their effort from the A & P store on Linnaean St. to the company's store on Mass Ave in hopes of gaining greater support from Harvard Houses and the Yard...
What kind of keyboard interpreter was Rachmaninoff? Like composer, like pianist. He was an unabashed romantic with unsurpassed gifts for pianistic col or, rhythmic thrust and pure trickery. But his most distinguishing trait at the keyboard was probably the pesky individual life of each of his fingers. When he wrote for himself, as in his four Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Volume 5 in the new release), he filled his pages with thickets of notes. So clustered are they that one suspects that he begrudged even a moment's pause or silence, at least when...
...public protest that followed the Cox dismissal and the virtually simultaneous resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus shocked the White House. At first Counselor Wright, on the following Tuesday, Oct. 23, was prepared to argue before Sirica that the Stennis compromise met the thrust of the Court of Appeals' suggestion that an out-of-court solution to the tapes impasse be found. But clearly it did not meet Sirica's order to produce the tapes. Although Sirica will not say what he intended to do about it, he does admit that he "was prepared...
Dark Days. From London, TIME Bureau Chief John M. Scott reported: "Suddenly last week Britain seemed thrust back to the dark days of the 1940s. The lights were going out again-or at least they most assuredly would if the government's conservation measures do not prove successful. Once again summonses to a new national resolve and unity sounded in the rhetoric of the hour. Confronted like the rest of Western Europe with a shortfall in oil supplies and impossible prices for the oil it can still buy, Britain, unlike its neighbors, was beset by a crisis within...
WHEN A PHYSICALLY and spiritually devastated Japan emerged from World War II, her people and their American conquerors established a program for her rejuvenation and modernization. That effort thrust a distinctively eastern nation into the arms of western civilization in which she would soon take a leading role...