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...ugly parade through downtown Hanoi, captured U.S. prisoners of war, handcuffed in pairs, were subjected to the insults of howling mobs. And the Communists tried to stem "the Rolling Thunder," as U.S. strikes over the North are code-named, by unleashing all the tricks of its air-defense system: SAM missiles, curtains of conventional flak, and forays by MIG-21 fighters...
...A.S.O. not only succeeded, it took off. What is more, Stoky's striplings are stealing some of the thunder from their big brothers at the New York Philharmonic. The A.S.O.'s world premiere of Charles Ives's fiercely modern Fourth Symphony, for example, was the highlight of the U.S. symphony season last year. In fact, when it comes to championing modern music, Stokowski makes many of the younger conductors look like old fogies. Dissonance for dissonance, the A.S.O. has played a higher proportion of contemporary music than any other major U.S. orchestra...
...ninth monarch of the 184-year-old Chakri dynasty, not only takes the business of being a king seriously but has taken it upon himself to mold his emerging nation's character. In the musical five-tone Thai tongue, his full name rings like the roll of monsoon thunder...
Memoirists are the musicians of history. Churchill's English eloquence thumped the drumhead of World War II into a heroic thunder with his wartime memoirs. Charles de Gaulle drew a dry bow over the taut strings of French postwar political chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past. Now Konrad Adenauer is onstage with the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period from 1945, when Germany lay in ruins, to 1953, when the postwar Wirtschaftswunder dawned. Adenauer's instrument, not surprisingly, is a brisk and Bachlike clavier, well tempered by the author's 90 years...
...Rolling Thunder," as U.S. fighter-bomber strikes over North Viet Nam are code-named, last week boomed to a new pitch of devastating intensity. In one day alone, the Air Force launched 120 sorties north of the 17th parallel, the Navy 141-the largest number of strikes in a day since regular bombing of Ho Chi Minh's domain began more than a year ago. For the first time since November, Air Force flyers penetrated north of Hanoi and Haiphong, blasting with 750-to 3,000-lb. bombs the road and rail lines carrying supplies from Red China. Concentrating...