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There were, of course, other ways to measure the importance of Graffman's concert. Now at 39, he has slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more...
...money supply by 7% and bank credit by an even more inflationary 12% to make sure that the U.S. Treasury could borrow enough to cover its deficit. The appetite for cash lifted interest rates to psychedelic highs. Some new issues of corporate bonds brought nearly 7%, a 100-year peak...
...addition of 7,000 Screaming Eagle paratroopers was accomplished during a month-long secret airlift, largest of its kind during any war, and boosted U.S. strength to 477,200-topping the peak American force of 472,800 in Korea. More G.I.s are on the way, as Westmoreland presses to achieve a total force of 525,000 promised by President Johnson for next June, several months ahead of schedule in order to press his new offensive...
...annual snowfall-73 ft. in the winter of 1906-07. At Alta, Utah, a 5,100-ft.-long lift has been added to open up the powder-rich Albion Basin, until now accessible only by climbing on skis. Vail, Colo., has developed a whole new mountain called Golden Peak...
Most German automakers have been speeding along in reverse this year. Turned back by the country's recession, auto sales have retreated 19% from last year's peak, and exports have skidded by 14%. Yet at the Stuttgart works of Daimler-Benz A.G., where 80,000 employees are rolling out more Mercedes than ever, the industry is on overtime and in overdrive...