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Over and over, Funt returned to his biggest beef. "I don't mind being finished," he said. "I've got lots to do. I feel that the 45 people who sweat this show out deserve a better fate than to hear it at tenth hand, without the dignity of a very nice funeral...
...least half of the aggravated assaults, burglaries and larcenies are probably never reported. In some communities, only one-tenth may show up on police records...
...well they might be. Sato's conservative Liberal Democratic Party had entered Japan's tenth postwar election with the expectation of a setback. The government was wreathed in a "black mist" of Cabinet-level corruption charges, harassed by catapulting consumer prices and a hostile press. Besides, there was worry about the reaction of a nervously pacifist nation to Sato's support of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. In view of all this, many conservatives feared losses of as many as 40 seats in the 486-man Lower House. But when the votes were in, Liberal Democrats...
...harsh rasps and thumps. The score, which was mounted on a revolving ring, allowed the musician to begin where he pleased; when he came full circle, the piece was over. Two other works were played on a tape recorder that Stockhausen himself operated from his command post in the tenth row, modulating and ricocheting the sound among four huge speakers mounted in the auditorium...
John French Jr. of Middlebury, a class B racer, won the giant slalom with 0:57.3. Second place went to Irwin Nelson, a B racer from New England College, who skied a tenth of a second slower than French...