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More surprising but less illuminating were some random facts: most pedestrian deaths occurred on straight streets with no unusual obstructions, and in good weather (though in rain and poor visibility, the toll increased). Except for the Bowery, heavily congested business districts had fewer fatalities than residential areas with lighter traffic...
OURSELVES TO KNOW (408 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
...Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt. The whole was something less than the sum of its brilliant parts. Pleasant surprises of the evening were Frederick Jacobi's Yeibichai: Variations for Orchestra on an American Indian Theme, which employed some interestingly experimental orchestral...
...WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN (372 pp )-Irwin Shaw-Random House...
STOCK INVESTORS stood a 60% chance of coming out ahead last year, if they bought shares at random on the New York Stock Exchange. Of issues listed on big board, 623 rose (most of them well over 10%), while 413 fell, most of them less than 10%. In all, 100 issues jumped 50% or more...