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...longest story in the magazine, David Littlejohn's Conversation With a Corpse," is just as disappointing. Is gruesome--both the story and the writing. The narrative centers around a man who takes care of corpses in a hospital and talks so them. It gets pretty cloying after a while. Littlejohn introduces a lot of gory detail, but the detail does not contribute significantly to the development of the story...
...flight is the world's longest nonstop passenger run in the world's largest transport. Once a week, an immense Russian turboprop TU-114 transport lifts from the runway of Havana's José Marti airport and points north on the 6,800-mile run to Moscow. Among the passengers aboard last week's flight was TIME'S Correspondent Edmund Stevens, the first Westerner ever to make the trip. His report...
...loose ends of the New York newspaper strike were still flapping around last week, and there was little chance that they would be tied up in a hurry. While the long argument continued, the strike, longest in the city's history, slipped past the 100-day mark...
...approximately 550 students will begin the program's two-year trial period. Upon securing permission from the graduate deans of both institutions these "traveling scholars" will have access to needed facilities at no increased cost. In fact, if they wish to transfer for a whole semester (the longest allowable span), they may pay whichever tuition is lower. Thus, an Illinois student may pay his University's tuition if he wishes to travel to more expensive Michigan, but he may pay the less expensive Indiana tuition if he chooses to go there...
...longest, Constellation, which lasts twelve and a half minutes, must come in the middle. The score of this format consists of groups of notes on long unfolding sheets. To make it easier for the performer to observe the different techniques of performance which Boulez requires for various constellations, the text is printed in red and green. The sound oscillates regularly in register and density, and Boulez seems to try to get every possible sonority out of the piano, like Debussy extrapolated fifty years into the future...