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...races start with trial heats at 8:45 a.m., but wait till a more reasonable 4 p.m. The six finals have been scheduled at fifteen minute intervals, with the varsity heavies rowing to victory...
...GLAGOLITIC MASS (Deutsche Grammophon). The late Czech composer wrote his only mass at 72, insisting, however, that he was "no believer?till I see for myself." The work is wildly dramatic, the bold musical motives deriving partly from the sounds of the ancient Church Slavonic language ("Glagolitic" is the name given to its written form). From the first brassy fanfare, Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing performance, with brilliant singing by Soprano Evelyn Lear and Tenor Ernst Haefliger...
...Head. From dawn till dusk, Red China's 38-player squad hammered away at the ball, pausing for tea and calisthenics every half-hour or so. "These Chinese," marveled Japan's former World Champion Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
...point, a series of close-ups of increasing detail to take you some-where--in this case to lead you upstream to the villains' headquarters. He used this trick in Seven Samurai. Three such close-ups introduced the scene of the villagers' conference at the beginning of the movie, till at last you could tell that those really were people squatting in a circle and not a brood of chickens...
...world, however, is that the ads are improving along with the industry's fortunes. A new sprightliness has come to advertising, marked by an increasing number of ads that are more whimsical, low keyed, imaginative and natural-in short, more fun to read, hear or view. "Up till recently," says Arthur C. Fatt, chairman of Grey Advertising, "we were concerned with whether or not people saw our advertisements. Now we are more concerned with what impression the advertisement makes...