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...patrons of the San Diego Symphony could hardly believe their eyes: 4,000 of their fellow townsmen streamed into Balboa Park's Ford Bowl for the city's largest symphonic turnout in many a season. Then they could hardly believe their ears: the San Diego Symphony played its way through a difficult program of concertos with Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and played beautifully. Critics, customers and Pianist Serkin all agreed: the orchestra had come of age. So had the conductor; at 39, Robert Shaw had made the difficult transition from a brilliant leader of voices to a topnotch director...
...confidently expects represents the final step in evolution of the wide screen. Last week Disney gave the press a peek at it; standing on a platform in the middle of a circular theater, the viewer watched a 15-minute scenic tour of Monument Valley, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Balboa Bay, had the sensation of looking out of the same car or boat that the eleven-camera unit had worked from. The sense of motion was impressive. Said Daily Variety: "Like riding in a flying saucer...
Thus did John Keats, with a poet's fine contempt for quibbling research,* immortalize the moment in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first recorded European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. Balboa's discovery led to the conquest of Peru, and by 1535 the Spaniards were feverishly carting the gold and silver loot of the luckless Incas over Panama's Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path...
...from Huntington, N.Y., tough jung'e training of combat teams from the Canal Zone's 33rd Infantry Regiment was the basic mission for both expeditions: choosing historical routes was an interest-arousing flourish. But playing the role of a conquistador caught McDonald's imagination: for Operation Balboa he briefed himself carefully under Balboa Expert Juan Rubio of the University of Panama. Then he followed the most authoritative route over the isthmus' north-coast range, down a remote river and across the densely jungled central plain. At length he faced three peaks, two about...
Like the retracing of Balboa's route, Operation Gold Road last week was proving much tougher going than the Spaniards found it. The conquistadors followed the trails of the then more numerous Indians, used Indian guides and bearers, rarely wore their heavy steel cuirasses. McDonald's men, by contrast, lugged 75-lb. packs and had to cut their their own way through the jungle with machetes. But the 1955 expedition was safer; radios could quickly summon help in the form of rescue helicopters. In an emergency, the roar of a whirly-bird's engine might well sound...