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...phonographs are nearly double last year's (1,423,179 for 1960 to date; 757,710 for 1959) and stand at more than three times those of standard players (438,011 for the year of date). Fresh labels are flowing from the record mints to fill the stereo gap-by no means all of them living up to the promise of true "separation of sound." While the vogue has produced some first-rate performances, (London's Girl of the Golden West, RCA Victor's brilliant new Turandot, Columbia's Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok) too often...
Time was when high-spirited citizens of Buffalo Gap. Texas (pop. 335) let off steam by bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...
Last fall the law came to Buffalo Gap. Unwary townsfolk voted to incorporate so they could get a better school and a municipal water system. What they also got, as soon as their aldermen began to exercise their new powers, was a part-time city marshal. And as soon as he pinned on his star, the marshal began to enforce a 3O-m.p.h. speed limit. From hot-rodding teen-agers to throttle-tromp-ing adults, Buffalo Gap was outraged. The marshal got no cooperation; he could not make his summonses stick in court. And since his only salary consisted...
...field, Hary poised on his blocks as steady as a carrier plane braced on its catapult. The six men came off the mark together, but within two strides Hary had accelerated to a half-meter lead. By the 50-meter mark, Hary opened up a two-meter gap as German fans chanted: "Hary! Hary! Hary...
...their net demand deposit obligations, will be lowered to 17½% on Sept. 1 as a step toward complying with last year's congressional act that all central reserve city and reserve city rates must be identical by July 28, 1962. Last week's action narrows the gap to a percentage point...