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FAURÉ: LA CHANSON D'ÈVE, AND FAURÉ'DEBUSSY: SIX VERLAINE POEMS SUNG BY PHYLLIS CURTIN (Cambridge). In the Song of Eve, Charles van Lerberghe's poetry runs with Eve through paradise on the world's first morning-fresh, vibrant, exulting. Fauré's setting is considerably tamer, though it echoes the poet's purity, as does Soprano Curtin. The flip side of this unusual record consists of settings by Fauré and Debussy of the same six Verlaine lyrics. It is a tribute to the richness of French songs that both...
There followed a dizzying succession of governments, eroding the war effort and sapping Vietnamese credibility about any regime in Saigon. General Duong Van Minh took over after Diem, to last just three months. Then came General Nguyen Khanh, who gave way to Harvard-trained Economist Nguyen Xuan Oanh ("Jack Owen") seven months later. Oanh had six days in office before Khanh bounced back in through the revolving door. Khanh gave way again, to Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, then whipped back in for a third-time rule of one month. Dr. Phan Huy Quat and his "Medicine Cabinet...
...like a comet with a tail that stretches at least 120,000 miles into space. Now it seems that the electrons Luna encountered near the moon are temporarily confined there by the earth's magnetic tail in much the same way that the electrons and protons of the Van Allen radiation belts are trapped in areas of the magnetic field closer to the earth...
Luna's discovery of high concentrations of electrons near the lunar surface caused an immediate flurry of press reports about possible danger to future manned moon missions. These were quickly brushed aside as "unfounded speculation" by University of Iowa Physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of the earth's radiation belts. Electrons with the energies reported by Luna were so "soft," he said, that they "could not even penetrate a thick piece of tissue paper...
Fantomas is the name of France's glossy riposte to both James Bond and Batman. Modeled on a French fictional supercriminal, he is dedicated to evil rather than good deeds. Fantomas steals diamonds from Van Cleef & Arpels, hijacks a gambling casino, terrorizes Paris and kidnaps blondes, all the while disguised as several law-abiding characters by means of "the most perfect artificial skin." Beneath the masks lurks another mask, a bluish-grey rubbery face girdle that gives him the fiendish aspect of a dirty Mr. Clean...