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Simple choral arrangements led to triteness: in Sanchez Malaya's Pues Bien Yo Necesito, a movingly bitter solo jarred badly with a sleepy, hummed background. The same happened in The Beggar's Opera songs when several jaunty soloists livened up the bland arrangement of an essentially impersonal chorus. Hearing a full chorus all evening robs music of its feeling because the tone colors and textures are so limited. Too many, groups sound like the imaginative Wiffenpoofs. Glee clubs must use smaller ensembles if they are to be more expressive...
...bike-handling skill that requires the agility of an acrobat, the know-how of a mechanic, and the endurance of Job. Riders use special, lightweight motorcycles with high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both legs; five other motorcyclists somehow escaped serious injury when they plunged, one after another, down...
...center can easily be made safe from light fallout: a survey has already proved that the center's water tanks-all located underground-are safe from radiation; windows in the central control board room in the yo-story RCA building are being bricked up to preserve the center's communications with its buildings. Next year the center will start on a far harder project-safeguarding underground shelters where workers and sightseers could wait out heavy fallout. Says Center President G. S. Eyssell: "We hope and pray that the thing we're preparing for will never happen...
...Broken Yo-Yo. Each of the strikes was a local affair called by a local union leader anxious to assert his authority. Like children out to embarrass their parents in public, local leaders went much further than Reuther expected, as they wrangled with G.M. plant negotiators over 11,000 issues ranging from the utterly frivolous (time off for deer hunting) to the undeniably serious (job transfer rights...
...dispatched to the locals telling them they were free to go on strike if they had no agreement on local issues when the national deadline came. Piqued Government officials agreed that Reuther had blundered badly with his telegram, mistakenly believing that he had his members on a Yo-Yo, could call them out for a few days to put a bit of extra pressure on G.M. and then send them back...