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Show GfllEQ P!Tpn Concorde 02 UhlLU rllbll the most advanced version of the four Concorde supersonic airliners built is visiting the to date, United States. It arrived at the Worth airport for the opening ceremonies Dallas-Fo- rt a few of the airport days ago, flying there by way of the Azores and Venezuela. The purpose of the trip is to try and sell the aircraft which travels at a speed of 1350 miles per hour new to Braniff , one of the few airlines which hasn't yet passed up its option to purchase some. Concorde, of course, one of the most costly The is aircraft fiascos ever developed ($1.1 billion to date) and is scheduled to go into service with BOAC and Air France in the spring of 1975. Demonstration flights planned over Texas will be at subsonic speeds until the plane reaches the Caribbean at which time the speeds will become super- sonic. checkered as press it is with James Madison, Onifln ftp u!lil versial 1751-183- 6, Next month a contro- and outspoken book, "Portrait of a Marriage" deals with the marriage of Vita Sackville-Weand Harold Nicolson and is written by st their his literary parents, Nicolson writes: famous "Both loved people of own sex but not exclu- their sively. Each one came to give the other full liberty without enquiry or reproach. Honour was rooted in dishonour. . .if their marriage is seen as a harbour, their love-affai- rs Sackville, was one of Britain's leading writers as was her husband Harold, who died in 1968 after publishing his famous diaries. knew The everyone one, and not Nicolsons who was any- until their various lovers died, did their son agree to publish a manuscript explaining his mother's "devastating love for another woman, Violet Trefusis." "The Sunday Times" of London son, Nigel. Of daughter of has already paid more than $100,000 for be published in Eng- It " ports-of-ca- ll. Sackville-We- st 2), Baron abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been obtained by reason and humanity over error and oppression." land. Vita (1892-196- omi: will were mere serial rights, and the book is sure to become a best seller at least in Great Britain where so many talented literary figures turn out to have been sexual libertarians. mmm ns Concert musicians who perform works in- volving loud, unexpected, electronic sounds can expect to suffer diarrhea. stomach ulcers, heart problems and insomnia. So report two German re- searchers, Eckart and Wiesen-hutt- er Marie-Lui- se Fuhrmeister who studied the effects of the music composed by Stockhausen, Boulez, Nilsson and Pende- recki the musicians who played it. They discovered that 60 percent of the musicians in Munichs three best orchestras suffered considerable discomfort on from performing such works. One woodwind player demusic is ruining his sex life. He complained that after rehearsal periods for clared that avant-gar- de major works by avant-gard- e composers he can no longer perform his marital duties. Modern music, of course, has its supporters as well as detractors. Avant-garenthusiasts say that those musicians who complain of de physical deterioration simply dislike that type of music which they appar- ently neither understand nor appreciate. cdhEl i |