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Manhattan's Grand Old Lady of 39th Street, the Metropolitan Opera House, has a lot of friends to save her from Götterdämmerung. A committee has been lobbying to prevent the building from being demolished to make way for an office skyscraper. Trouble is, the Met itself doesn't share their concern. The company, now housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that...
They said goodbye to the grand old lady of 39th Street with a gala wake. The farewell performance at Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House (1883-1966) drew 3,900 guests and three generations of conductors to reminisce through hits and bits from 25 operas. The hello to the new house had actually started with a bang a few days earlier. KER-BLAM! went the sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun fired for a sound test. "O say! can you see . . ." roared the 3,200 New York City schoolchildren in the Met's new, $45,700,000 house...
...Metropolitan Opera announced that it would abandon its historic old house for new quarters in Lincoln Center, requests for souvenirs have been pouring in by the thousands from opera lovers as well as opera stars around the world. Their eagerness is understandable: the proud Old Lady of 39th Street has been allowed to waste away, and next month, when the wrecking crews get started, there will be nothing left...
...Effects of Despair. In terms of overall performance, South Viet Nam's military establishment cannot be rated as anything better than middling. After all, it has neither won nor approached victory in eleven years of existence. Many units break and run in battle, as did the 39th Ranger Battalion earlier this year. The 39th became known as "the roadrunners." But during the Quangngai fight "the roadrunners" stood their ground on a conical hill called Nuitran. There 108 of them were wiped out, erasing in the process the slur on their battalion's name...
Having settled the future, Johnson set the press straight on his record. "Today," he intoned, "marks the 39th on-the-record press conference that I have held, along with 18 off-the-record, for a total of 57. 1 have had 18 press conferences with adequate advance notice, 16 covered by radio and television. Eight of these were live television, in addition to three live television joint sessions [of Congress] in the little over the year I have been President...