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DENNY ZEITLIN is both a pianist and an M.D. in psychiatric training who likes to analyze his music ("I attempted to build layer upon layer of tension to generate an organic shape"). In Live at the Trident (Columbia), he plays standards and some pieces of his own in a wide variety of moods and forms. Although he pays allegiance to Ornette Coleman as the most significant jazzman of the decade, Zeitlin himself plays it much safer and at times seems to be simply entertaining at the cocktail hour...
...Louis crash that killed Astronauts Elliott See and Charles Bassett. Pilot See, having missed his first pass at the runway, told the tower that he planned a second instrument-landing approach in his T-38 jet trainer. He inexplicably continued to fly a visual pattern and made a wide turn just below the overcast, ran into a patch of fog, apparently lost orientation, slammed a building-and just barely missed demolishing the room where all the space capsules for the next four Gemini flights were stored...
...officers' billet, the Hotel Victoria, in suburban Saigon. Machine-gunning down the guards, they set off a Claymore-type mine, then backed a Citroën delivery truck loaded with 500 Ibs. of plastique explosive up to the gate and blew the Victoria's ground-floor front wide open. Three Americans and three Vietnamese were killed, 113 Americans and twelve Vietnamese wounded. Only the week before, a barrier of drums filled with concrete had been removed from in front of the Victoria because, explained a U.S. spokesman at the time, "we don't want...
...last November, nine men wearing identical wide-brim hats and ankle-length overcoats, and carrying identical canvas bags, stepped off a plane in Düsseldorf and settled into a hotel in Duisburg in the industrial Ruhr...
...spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens and the 38-closed-circuit audiences who saw the Louisville champion extended 15 rounds for the first time. Chuvalo landed solid blows with the left to Clay's body and jaw in several rounds, but Clay outpunched the Canadian by a wide margin and drew blood from cuts around his puffed eyes...