Word: alto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partly to blame. A shrewd businessman, he ensured The Messiah's success by hiring the best and most popular singers in 18th century London to sing it. If the bass singer was not very good, Handel would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices, he would doll up the music with ornaments and, if another soprano complained, he would steal a few arias from the first soprano and slip them to the second. To further befuddle historians, Handel was continually juggling arias to fit whatever...
Born. To Joan Baez, 28, queen of American folk music, and David Harris, 23, who started serving a three-year sentence in federal prison last July for refusing induction into the Army: their first child, a son; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Many of Stanford's 2,820 coeds are now seeking contraceptive help at the nearby Palo Alto Planned Parenthood center; its director, Gloria Davis, complains that the clinic is so crowded with students that high school teenagers from the community are being squeezed out. Dr. James McClenahan, director of Stanford's health center, agrees that the. university itself should probably take over. Dr. Richard U'Ren, a psychiatrist at the university health center, thinks otherwise. "What the health center should be dispensing to unmarried students is advice," he says. "If students want to go beyond that...
...W.SPENCE Palo Alto, Calif...
...last five years have these things happened to me!" Other times he will be more philosophical: "I know it's my fault. It was impossible for me to foresee these things." He has only three ambitions now. One is to move closer to his children in Palo Alto, Calif. The second is to visit once more his birthplace and the graves of his parents in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, home of so many American Mafiosi. The third, which he apparently does not tell young Hill about, is to return to power, and, like Napoleon at Elba, he still dreams...