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...sports section of the Washington Post, Schelling pulled out his yellow legal pad and started to figure out who should go at 9:30 to see Senator Edward Brooke, and who should join the Mendelsohn group of Faculty members, students, and employees for a meeting in the New Senate Auditorium. (The schedule for the rest of the day included Senator Edward Kennedy '54 at 10:30, lunch with Kissinger at 1:30 p. m., Undersecretary of Defense David Packard-a last-minute addition-at 3:30 p. m., and Undersecretary of State Eliot Richardson...
...morning, the group jammed the Senate Auditorium to listen to five anti-war legislators urge them to begin anti-war organizing campaigns in their homes across the nation...
...costumes put away, and the Metropolitan Opera has left Boston for another year. It was nice while it lasted. If you could get a ticket, and didn't mind paying five dollars for a seat with an obstructed view. Nice, if you didn't mind sitting in an auditorium with all of the acoustical purity of the Grand Canyon. Nice, if you really wanted to hear another performance of Pagliacci, or Cavalleria Rusticana...
...state assistance. One of the most obvious would be a state supported bond issue to build a decent opera house, which could incorporate some of the more basic advances in modern acoustics which were neglected when the City of Boston built the John J. Hines Memorial (alias War Memorial) auditorium. The next logical step would be some sort of assistance to an opera company, either in the form of an outright grant to some established private group, like the Boston Opera Company, or, more preferably, the founding of an official state opera, which would reside in Boston and perform...
...sounds. The Blue company features Mexico's "Flying Gaonas, the first family of the air"; Tito Gaona, who performs the triple somersault, is regarded as the greatest "flyer" in circus history. "Death-Defying Jose Guzman" rides a motorcycle up a wire to the roof of the auditorium, carrying with him a trapeze on which his wife Monique does acrobatic maneuvers. For a finale, Ringling's "human missiles," the Zacchinis, are fired from a cannon almost simultaneously. In the South, the Red company's program includes Sweden's "Unbelievable Lindstroms," who ride the high wire, all three...