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...orgy? In Boston? Er-, ah-, well now, everyone muttered, that would take a little doing. But doing is Sarah Caldwell's speciality, and last week she led her Opera Company of Boston in the U.S. premiere of Schoenberg's epic Moses and Aron. For raw power, fireworks and daring, it was a spectacle that made Bunker Hill look like the Tea Party...
...Bucktail at 9-4, and Damredub at 100-8. For the last race at England's Newbury track, the lady picked Blazing Sky at 7-2 to win the six-furlong Theale Maiden Stakes. Sure enough, Blazing Sky came breezing across to take it by four lengths. "Ah!" cried the Duchess of Norfolk, 50, wife of the realm's premier duke. "How I like Newbury!" Indeed, Newbury had been very kind to her. On a wager of 70?, her ladyship collected $7,804.34, the tote jackpot, by backing the winners in all six races...
...charge that he sometimes miscasts his operas, Bing says: "Casting an opera at the Met is easy. If you want to do a Lucia, then you know you have to get Sutherland. If it's Turandot, then you get Nilsson. Ah, but if you're trying to cast Lucia in Magdeburg, Germany, and you have six sopranos who can sing it, then you have to know something about music." More reasonable is the complaint that Bing has failed to bring along enough first-rate conductors. He contends that "there are few really distinguished conductors around, but the shortage...
...line. "My goodness!" exclaimed Tawes, and pumped in the prize. No one else got even a sniff from a fish until just before the 3 p.m. quitting time. And then Delaware's Governor Charles L. Terry hauled in a 7-ft. 7-in. marlin to edge out Tawes. Ah well, Delaware's state bird is the blue hen chicken, and that's surely better than hasenpfeffer...
...talk of old times at Ozuki, the Divine Wind two decades later was barely a zephyr. Eying a row of modern U.S. trainers on the familiar runway, Shipyard Salesman Tatsuo Suzuki, 43, wished that "our planes had been as good as these in those days." Ah, rasped Hotel Manager Jumpei Watanabe, "if our planes had been this good, we wouldn't be here...