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...finest chapter of their musical book is in Verse, a rubato theme that moves into a flowing waltz tempo. Edging into the avant-garde on 8-4 Beat and Black Circle, the instrumentalists whirl gracefully around some unexpected chords. On the quiet ballad Summer Nights, vibes and piano trace shimmering patterns on the surface of a serene pool...
...Meillands trace their business success to a trip that Francis Meilland made to the U.S. in 1935. He traveled 15,000 miles cross-country in a secondhand car and studied the American rose industry-from breeding to selling. When Meilland went home, he became the first in Europe to use color plates in his catalogues and promote sales campaigns with colored posters He also fought persistently for European patent laws that would protect his new plants. Until his lobbying achieved success all over the Continent, his best products were pirated by competitors Today, with the law behind it, the Meilland...
...talked for forty-five minutes, allowing the Secret Service to trace the call twice. Five minutes later he called back, said there was no bomb, and apologized...
...allied patrols scoured the scorched and battered moonscape around the liberated Marine garrison of Khe Sanh last week, they found North Vietnamese trenches and bunkers, tons of supplies and ammunition, some 1,300 bodies-and hardly a trace of opposition. Whether fled or dead, the formidable force of 20,000 North Vietnamese assault troops that had ringed 6,000 U.S. Marines and ARVN troops was gone. What once loomed as the largest, most decisive and most controversial battle of the Viet Nam war would now never be joined, and the forebodings of the armchair generals* who questioned the decision...
...have had very moving illusory experiences under pot too. These aren't true medical hallucinations, since I knew full well at the time that they were the results of my intoxication and would pass." But he insists, as do most pot smokers, that there is not a trace of morning-after hangover...