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...Glee Club and Choral Society have just issued a 12-inch record of Sixteenth Century music, mostly Palestrina, with selections of Byrd, Lassus, and Amerio (Cambridge, CRS405). Some of this is a reissue of an earlier 10-inch disc. The major section, which is new, is Palestrina's Stabat Mater, sung with freshness and purity...
...that any foreign nation that "regularly for the period of five years" had been fishing in that zone should be allowed to continue. This, said Arthur Dean, represented "extraordinary sacrifices" by the U.S., but "those who came here believing in the straight twelve-mile limit have not budged an inch...
...dignity through a dull, crowded round of ceremonies. She watched a track meet (again from her cooled chair), attended a garden party, laid a cornerstone, visited a sugar mill. Relaxing one night at a private calypso party, she watched in awe as nimble "limbo" dancers wriggled under a ten-inch-high bar without touching the floor with their hands, showed no reaction (although officials blanched) when a calypso singer, in an improvised lyric, referred to her broken romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend. At week's end she flew off for ten days in Tobago, British Guiana...
...pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: "At last, an unprintable book that is readable." Secret Agent Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate some mysterious goings-on on a neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets to the small island, drops off to sleep only to awaken to the sight of a beautiful girl, nude but for a wide leather belt around...
Launched at 10:53 E.D.T., the 20-inch satellite was carried aloft by a Vanguard rocket weighing 22,000 pounds...