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...Bismarck, 65, was blaring in his ear seemed urgent too. But the Duke, as well as the photographers covering the Paris nightspot's new revue, found it hard not to focus on such a well-turned-out fashion plate as the Countess Marie Aline de Figueroa, 41, the American-born wife of the Spanish Count of Quintanilla...
...Connecticut-born beauty singing the leading role of Titania. She was Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall, 34, who for the past ten years has made Vienna home base and last year took her first bows at the Met. Her new title: Kammersängerin (chamber singer), the first time an American-born artist has ever received the award...
...first time that a Russian audience had heard an American-born singer in the title role of Boris Godunov. For his passionate and athletic performance -in faultless Russian-of the tragic Czar, enormous (6 ft. 6 in.. 195 Ibs.) Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Mines, 40, drew a tumultuous standing ovation and six curtain calls from the opening night crowd at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. Said the Hollywood-born Hines, modestly trying to sound surprised at the cheers: "How do you think Americans would feel if they saw Yuri Gagarin on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral...
...copy of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict as a reminder of an abbot's responsibilities. Then, as a choir chanted the Te Deum, Abbot Boultwood formally accepted the fealty of 37 monks from St. Anselm's Abbey, the capital's only Benedictine monastery. American-born and British-educated, Father Boultwood, 50, was chosen by the monks (in a secret ballot) last November to be their first abbot, shortly after Pope John XXIII elevated the 37-year-old community from the status of a priory...
...communications of his swiftly moving craft. Since chimps are easier to train before they reach puberty, the pioneers are all relatively younger than the seven human astronauts, all married and fathers, who are training for the Mercury man-in-space program. Of the more promising chimponauts, only one is American-born (the Fresno, Calif, zoo); the rest were captured in the jungles of equatorial Africa...