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...ERIK JENSEN...
...Mexico's brilliant but erratic Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox: a tense, 3-2 victory over Sweden's Ulf Schmidt and Jan Erik Lundquist in the Davis Cup Interzone semifinals at Mexico City. Palafox lost both his singles matches, but teamed with Osuna to win the doubles in four sets, and Osuna outlasted Lundquist 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the deciding singles match. Next stop for the Mexicans: New Delhi, where they will play India for the right to take on Australia next month in the challenge round...
...agers silently gathered around several buses loaded with delegates. Someone threw a stone through a bus window, someone else heaved a beer bottle, and in a flash the scene turned into a full-scale riot. White-capped police used truncheons to subdue the antiCommunists, even roughed up Police Chief Erik Gabrielson (whom they failed to recognize in a business suit). Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, a member of the Moscow delegation, was so upset by the anti-Red rioters that he rushed back to his floating hotel, the white-hulled Gruzia, and dashed off a frenzied poem called Sniveling Fascism, which...
Looking inwards, it should seize upon Raphael Demos, retiring Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development; and Perry G. E. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature. All three have vastly increased Harvard's reputation, a service for which Harvard is ordinarily grateful...
Less gymnastic than their title would suggest, Erik Satie's Trois Gymnopedies (1888) are pastoral melodies with an extremely simple accompaniment of strings and harp. But even in his most restrained mood, Satie could not resist a final playful tweak: the three pieces end on the "wrong" chord (subdominant); but nobody notices this joke any more, and the Trois Gymnopedies pass, to Satie's undoubted horror, as incorrigibly romantic...