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...which they chewed up eight South Vietnamese battalions, the Communist Viet Cong suddenly slowed their offensive. Whether they were pausing to catch their breath - or to fathom President Johnson's recent pronouncement, calling for both a buildup of U.S. forces and a renewed try for peace - was un clear. But the fact was that while the guerrillas have conducted some small-unit actions, it has been weeks since they have risked any big, battalion-scale attacks...
Whether Johnson did or not is un known. But by that time it was probably too late for Dirksen's purposes. Unable to get an approving vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was forced to a crippling admission of weakness by presenting his proposal to the Senate in the form of a substitute for a resolution providing for a "National American Legion Baseball Week...
After the intermission, thoough, the pace increased. A set of seven chorale preludes by Ernst Pepping--a relatively un-of the second half of the proknown contemporary musician--could have been the highlight of the second half of the program, with its delightful melodies and excellent idiomatic use of the organ. But the chorales were overshadowed immediately by the next number, Charles Ives' Variations on "America" (1891). If Mr. Biggs ever decides to make a recording with audience reaction, this should be his first selection. Not only does Ives impishly turn the tune into a music box ditty, an overembellished...
...Schumann, which opened the program, has difficult passages for rhythmic ensemble and intonetion. But the quartet maintained excellent balance and infused the work with a vital spirit that is rarely heard. Even the third movement, which has some rather un-string quartetish passages, worked well in their hands...
...Communist Party, who was summarily read out of the movement in 1929 after rejecting Stalin's demand for greater subservience of the U.S. party to the Soviet Union, thereupon wrote a detailed expose of Red activities in the U.S., became a star witness of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, was widely criticized for falsely accusing others of Communist complicity, later drifted into obscurity; of a heart attack; in Crompond...