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...President ticked off the list of new U.S. weapons: missiles of all shapes and sizes for the Army, Navy and Air Force.* The jewel of his collection was on a red velvet coverlet near his desk as he spoke. It was the 4-ft. nose cone to an Army Jupiter missile. Said the President: "One difficult obstacle on the way to producing a useful long-range weapon is that of bringing a missile back from outer space without its burning up like a meteor . . . This object here in my office is the nose cone of an experimental missile...
LIKE all French Finance Ministers, Félix Gaillard occupies quarters in the Palace of the Louvre, and en route to his private dining salon passes through the state apartment of Napoleon III with its massive chandeliers, velvet drapery and columns, caryatids and cherubs encrusted with gold leaf. "Ugly, isn't it?" remarked Gaillard cheerfully to a TIME reporter. "All the gold I own is on these walls." This week Félix Gaillard arrives in the U.S. See FOREIGN NEWS, France's Daring Young...
...VELVET HORN (373 pp.)-Andrew Lytle-McDowell, Obolensky...
Author Lytle, 54, has long been one of a group of regional writers, e.g., Robert Penn Warren. John Crowe Ransom, enraptured by the agrarian tradition of the middle South. He put eight years into writing The Velvet Horn, and it shows in the detailed research, the loving re-creation of events and places, the carefully archaic turn of phrase. Long after most readers have forgotten his flamboyant Cropleighs, they will remember such fine set pieces as the marriage of Julia and the wake of Joe Cree with its barbecue, and the excellent sketches of the mountain people, whose folk talk...
...short pieces, says youthful (30) Manhattan Composer Alonzo Levister, he was influenced by ''blues, Bartok, Bach and Baptist shouting," but the sound that comes out is clearly his own. The mood is wistful, the emotion wire-taut, the rhythms occasionally splintered. Most successful: Black Swan, a brooding, velvet-piled excursion into the mind and style of Trumpeter Miles Davis...