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...motivated by nothing more than a craving for the new and different; others, unable to deal with genuine human feelings, escape into atomizing and itemizing; still others think that a "scientific" approach is nowadays a guarantee of high seriousness. In Degrees, Butor attempts to en-capsule forever a chunk of reality, like a mouse enclosed in a glass globe. The mouse becomes magnified beyond its importance, and the revolving globe presents the rodent from angles irrelevant to human experience. Since it was a very small mouse to start with, it should be no surprise if, after all that manhandling...
Sources of stereo sound are now more available than ever. Practically all new record releases are available in stereo as well as mono. Stereo tapes, of the four-track variety, are winning a surprising chunk of the recorded music market. But the biggest development since stereo first became commercial in 1957 was the recent approval by the FCC of a system for broadcasting stereo music over FM radio...
Died. Ulrich Haberland, 60, dynamic boss of West Germany's giant Farben-fabriken Bayer, a Lutheran clergyman's son and ex-Nazi Party member who in 1951 took control of the largest chunk of the Occupation-decentralized I.G. Farben chemical empire, by last year had boosted the concern to a gross of $786 million in 133 countries; of a heart attack; in Eifel Mts., West Germany...
...their remarks are meant mainly for their own countries. This isn't world opinion at all; yet we act as if it were. For instance, what was the world opinion reaction to the resumption of Soviet nuclear tests? How can you measure this myth when a very large chunk of the world didn't even know the Russians had resumed testing...
...part of the business comes from the general growth of such activities as golf and bowling, whose adherents require standing symbols of victory over one another; Manhattan's Tiffany & Co., for example, sells a sterling-silver-headed putter ($140) as a "presentation piece." But a sizable chunk of new orders for cups, plaques and statuettes is pure whim-and sometimes pure, if harmless, bunk. One man ordered a dog-show trophy, which he donated as an award for a rare breed; his dog won it only because the dog was the only rare breed in the show...