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...visitors' gallery, during the first session of Ireland's newly elected Parliament last week, a girl in a white blouse and green beret sat working at sums. As each of the 14 independent members who held the balance of power in the new government got up to speak, the busy spectator made a mark under the name "Dev" or "Costello." In the elections, two weeks before, Dev's party had won 69 seats; all other parties and the independents together had won 78. Unless the independents now voted for Prime Minister John Costello, he would...
...opera's central character (Beret), a "fine sensitive woman" who cracks up from pioneering hardships, gets lost amidst homecomings, claim jumpings, a wedding, baptism and a final invasion of locusts. The result: Giants in the Earth totted up as more of a series of tableaux (or a bad western) than an opera...
...Communists issued an ultimatum to village elders: cooperate by Jan. 27, or have your property confiscated. Thais and Muongs began taking refuge behind the French lines. The French recruited them at 350 (good) piasters a month, armed them with rifles, mortars. Soon the French had a barefooted, beret-wearing, mobile mountain force of several thousand...
...suburb of Zehlendorf, in the U.S. sector, he got up every morning at 7:30 and ate a modest breakfast. ("He has no time for exercise and he doesn't want to get fat," his petite, redheaded wife explained.) At 8:15, he set a black beret on his unruly grey hair, picked up his cane and went out to his official car, a black Mercedes sedan. At 8:30, he arrived at the great, grey Rathaus Schoneberg and walked to his high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he started out on his null 6-hour...
...month ago, looking as French as frogs' legs, the beret-bearing, 60-year-old composer arrived at Tanglewood, in Massachusetts' Berkshires, to be guest instructor in composition. Before he left Paris, he had received a cable from Tanglewood's Serge Koussevitzky: "We will perform your [opera] Le Roi d'Yvetot. Are you happy...