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...Clyde, a bimonthly magazine for men started by Gerald Rothberg, a 26-year-old bachelor who has sensibly clung to his job on Esquire (promotion manager). An equivocating blend of Esquire (semi-intellectual articles) and Playboy (semi-revealed torsos), Clyde in two issues has not yet decided which approach it prefers...
Existing marks were smashed in all four races at the start of the three-day NCAA swimming and diving championships at Yale University Pool last night. Dan Mahoney, Harvard's only hopeful in the first day's events, was eliminated in the semi-finals of the one-metre spring-board diving...
...elections to fill half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies, an old, deposed dictator pulled off a disturbing ballot-box coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats...
...running mate, thereby offending several prominent right-wing M.N.R. leaders, whose vice-presidential choice was General René Barrientos Ortuño, 44, Bolivia's crewcut, U.S.-trained air force commander. Unmoved by their protests, Paz was all set to send Barrientos into semi-exile as ambassador to London, a classic Bolivian ploy for settling intraparty disputes. Then, late one night last month, Barrientos was mysteriously ambushed and shot. The U.S. command pilot wings on his right chest deflected the bullet, and Barrientos was not seriously wounded. Instead, the assassination attempt made him a hero. Sniffing the wind...
...book seems aimed at that middle group of music listeners who do not take music very seriously or think much about its importance; the book could arouse such people from semi-indifference. But this is not a book of broad interest. The reader who knows nothing about music will be uninterested in the specific problems of music teaching, music reviewing, and musicology which Woodworth tackles. And the serious listener will find himself bored, perhaps insulted, by Woodworth's not very eloquent statements telling him now music can uplift his soul and how he should be tolerant of twentieth century dissonances...