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...eyes are an ageless blue, but the ancient Signora Partibon is dying. Life flickers in her like needlepoints of sunlight refracted on a palazzo ceiling from the Grand Canal. She grips the hand of her grandson Giorgio and thanks him for his visit ("Now the whole family has come"). But Giorgio, incorrigibly honest, utters a long-banished name: "One of your sons, Marco, is not here." In a paroxysm of coughing, the old lady dies...
Uneasy Neighbors. If there is one proposition on which all the Western intelligence experts agree, it is that more unites the Soviet Union and Communist China than divides them. But what divides them is becoming more and more conspicuous. Ageless national conflicts are already pulling Russia and China in different directions. Under the impact of their exploding population, the Chinese are moving westward and northward into the border lands of Mongolia, Sinkiang and Manchuria (where population has doubled since...
...Walter's musical vision. In the sterner period of the Seventh and Ninth, it takes on an incandescence and brilliance that elevate both performances to dazzling heights. Not all of the set is equally good, but all of it is imbued in some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm. At one point during the rehearsal of the Third Symphony, he exhorted the strings to greater effort, rewarded them with an ecstatic cry: "There you are! And it's paradise! Such a pianissimo! Oh, to be in paradise!" Then Octogenarian Walter paused. "No," he added, "not too soon...
Bishop John P. Cody (Class of '32) of Kansas City spoke for all the North American College's old grads this weekend when he said: "This institution is ageless. We who have studied here give thanks to Almighty God for the good the college has done. And we are confident the future will be even more glorious...
...first upper-class woman to break the archbishop's position was his own distant relative, Dolores del Rio, Mexico's ageless beauty, who made her first film in 1925. Since then the gradual path of feminine emancipation has paralleled Mexico's growing industrial boom. As new jobs were created, parents began giving daughters the education necessary to fill them. In 1953, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines gave women the vote. The women have taken it from there...