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...following year, folded again after four more performances. The talented 35-year-old composer set the work aside for eight years. Then he undertook extensive revisions. "Hardly a musical number has been left unchanged," he wrote to a Vienna newspaper, "ard more than half the opera was composed anew." Finally, in May 1814, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelia, was produced again at a different Vienna theater-and immediately became...
...small but violent dispute (at least 20 people injured), workers walked off the job at Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-the first general strike at the world's largest shipyard. Meanwhile, the possibility of a crippling strike by six railroad shopcraft unions flickered anew, though on Capitol Hill, there were hopeful plans to draft legislation to handle the dispute...
...Johnson and Kosygin conferred on a wide spectrum of world issues that the superpowers alone can hope to resolve, interrupting private sessions monitored only by interpreters with a working luncheon attended by their top advisers. When they parted, it was not goodbye but au revoir; they surprised the world anew by returning to Glassboro for another meeting 48 hours later...
...bathtub, "Anchors aweigh," when Lever Brothers offered to pay him double what the Navy paid, I nagged for his dress sword with gold braid, and cringed because Mother, new caps on all her teeth, was born anew at forty. With seamanlike celerity, Father left the Navy, and deeded Mother his property...
After years of hesitation, tentative probes and endless talks all over Europe. Britain last week decided to take the big step and apply anew for membership in the six-nation Common Market. This means that Europe, and particularly Charles de Gaulle (who blackballed Britain's first application in 1963), must in turn decide whether to expand the Continental economic and trade community to seven members-and possibly to even ten or twelve, since Britain's fellow members in the European Free Trade Association are almost certain to try to follow...