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Fast-growing Trans-Canada Air Lines, the world's eighth largest airline in passenger-miles flown, made its biggest splash last week by announcing that it had ordered 20 Vanguard turboprop airliners from Britain's Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Cost: $67.1 million-the largest single dollar order placed in Britain since...
Rossini: Sonatas for Strings (Solisti di Zagreb; Vanguard). Teen-age instrumental works by one of the world's most brilliant vocal composers. His irresistible melody is already bubbling, and there is hardly a note that does not solace the ear. The style is as neat, light and humorous as Rossini's later coloratura arias...
KINGDOM OF THE BEASTS, by Julian Huxley and W. Suschitzky (159 pp.; Vanguard; $ 12.50), is the next best thing to a safari, or long afternoons spent at a zoo. The photographs are unusually fine and Zoologist Huxley contributes crisp and informative notes as well as a highly readable essay on the mammal world...
...GLORY OF ROMANESQUE ART (351 pp.; Vanguard; $15). In the minds of many visitors to France, what lingers longest is the richness of its Romanesque architecture, the combination of religiosity and dedicated workmanship that lives in Chartres, at Mont St.-Michel, in Vezelay. These 271 photographs are rich evidence of the legacy left by the great architects and sculptors of 11th and 12th century France, the marriage of mass and grace, of glory to God and man's determination to create for posterity...
FROM INCAS TO INDIOS, by Werner Bischof, Robert Frank and Pierre Verger (77 pp.; Universe; $ 10), and THE ANDES, by Claude Arthaud and François Hébert-Stevens (185 pp.; Vanguard; $12.50), contain some of the year's best photographs. Peru and the Andes generally run to pure drama, in nature as in man. A child, an old woman, a street scene become as majestic in the work of these cameramen as the towering mountains...