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GEOFFREY H. BASS...
...with the sound tracks of such uncertain musical bets as Mogambo, The Pride and the Passion, Hot Rod Rumble. By and large, present-day studio composers seem a trifle more sophisticated than the practitioners of "Micky Mouse" music in the '30s, when whole orchestras simply hurtled into the bass clef when a character tumbled downstairs. Columbia's The Bridge on the River Kwai, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold, skillfully melds its bellowing brasses and shivering strings with such traditional military airs as the Colonel Bogey March in a score long on pomp, short on circumstance. RCA Victor...
GIORGIO Tozzi, 35, a tall (6 ft. 1 in.), big-shouldered Chicago-born bass, made his New York debut as Tarquinius in the 1949 Broadway production of Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia, but after the short-lived Rape closed, Tozzi wound up a penniless student in Italy (he recalls being so weak from hunger that he could climb to his third-floor room only once a day). Since then, he has sung widely in Europe, last summer toured as Emile de Becque with Mary Martin in South Pacific. A onetime baritone, Tozzi has a deep, warm voice...
...boom triangle. Shucking off the mañana tradition, Ensenada laborers are working seven days a week to finish a $15 million deepwater port, a $3,500,000 cement factory and acres of new houses. Close to 4,000 workers are employed catching, cleaning and canning plentiful white sea bass, sardines, rock lobsters. A new cannery packs tomatoes and chili peppers grown on farms to the south. White-painted boats chug in and out of the harbor, carrying the guests of 44 new motels to sport-fishing grounds...
Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, 24 this week, reported to his three humble tutors on his studies of fish psychology. First, he had trained some salmon, bass and carp to associate their feeding time with the lighting of a red lamp. Having established a conditioned reflex which led the fish to expect food whenever the light was switched on. Akihito then impaired their vision by tinkering with their ophthalmic nerves. His scientific conclusion from the experiment (no surprise): the delicate operation caused the fish to "lose their previous ability to connect the lamp's red glow with food...