Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...auditorium is tiny, cluttered and creaky with age. Spectators in the front row run the danger of being skewered by the conductor's baton, and a singer who wants to be heard has to shout down the throat of the tuba. But despite such drawbacks, the audience at Manhattan's Xavier Theater last week saw and heard as fine a revival of Gian-Carlo Menotti's stark Greenwich Village drama. The Saint of Bleecker Street, as the opera is likely to receive. What made the production even more surprising was that not one of the professional performers...
Passing the Baton. Confusing the election still more is the question of religion in a district whose voters are about 10% Mormon. Both candidates are Mormons, but Matheson is far more active in the church. He spent two years as a missionary in the British Isles, has served in a number of local church offices...
...flying his own Piper Tri-Pacer. But with the whole Udall clan pitching in for Mo, Matheson was beginning to feel the pinch. "I feel like I'm running against a relay team," he said. "No sooner do I get through with one Udall than he hands the baton to a brother...
KATHERINE G. MCDONALD Baton Rouge...
There can be no relaxing after a plant is built. New processes that can shave fractions of a cent off the costs are coming along so fast that engineers are constantly redesigning plants. At its Baton Rouge plant, Humble Oil at first buried its pipes neatly underground. But it has dug them up so often for remodeling that it now has them running on easy to get at racks above ground...