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...week-long festivities of the Moslem sacrificial feast known as Eid-ul-Azha had not yet ended. Suddenly one evening as Pakistanis gathered in their local mosques for prayers an earthquake rumbled across the northern part of the country. Within moments, thousands of buildings collapsed into rubble, and some mountain villages were practically wiped from the map. By the time the tremors finally stopped 24 hours later, at least 5,100 people were dead, and more than 15,000 injured...
...seminars have been scheduled in conjunction with a week-long exhibition of the paintings of ten contemporary black artists at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Dorchester...
...wish some day. Right now he is going to have to settle for the benefits accruing to him as part of a revival of interest in serious black American music-as opposed to jazz and the blues. Within the past year the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has devoted a week-long festival to Still and other black composers. Columbia Records has issued the first four albums of an ambitious new black-composers series. One of the LPs offers Still's Afro-American Symphony (1930), a prismatically scored, blues-flavored gem and, incidentally, the first symphony ever written by a black...
Suki Magraw, Radcliffe's top singles entry, succeeded to the second round by default before a 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 defeat. Second singles Rita Funaro, playing despite a week-long cold, suffered her setback in the first round...
Inexplicably, the authors of that arrogant nonbook The Best missed a chance to make a snap judgment that few would challenge-namely, that Maya Plisetskaya is the finest female classical dancer in the world. Last week the reigning ballerina of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet headed a group of touring stars from the company in a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Shrewdly, the management announced in advance that she would dance at every performance; otherwise, seeing this uneven cadre of Bolshoiviks -actually, they constitute less than one-third of the entire troupe-without her would...