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...opera at Milan's La Scala last week was Verdi's Battle of Legnano, and the principals bore glittering reputations -Soprano Antonietta Stella, Tenor Franco Corelli. But as anxious to please as either of them were the two men posted on either side of the first gallery (the fifth tier). Antonio Carrara, 33, and Carmelo Alabisio, 76, can lay claim to being opera's most successful dispensers of professional applause...
Nehru finds Menon witty, intelligent, provocative. Besides, he serves as a kind of lightning rod for other left-wing Indian intellectuals who might harass (and bore) Nehru far more if it were not for Menon's position close to the Prime Minister. Involved in a close race in the last general election in 1957, Menon expects another tight contest against the widely respected coalition candidate, Acharya J. B. Kripalani next February. The "conquest" of Goa probably gives Menon the edge he needs to carry his North Bombay constituency handily...
...Afro-Asian nations made no move to block a U.S.-backed condemnation of Red China as an aggressor against Tibet. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland believes that the "colonialism" issue may soon run out of steam ("A lot of the delegates regard it as a bore"), because there is simply not much colonialism left...
...rarity; yet he sneered at his Belgian sponsors as deceitful, and at the U.S. as "cowardly and decadent." He was urbane and charming, with a clever turn of phrase couched invariably in excellent French. But he was also superstitious enough to blame messengers for any bad news they bore, and he was volatile and unpredictable; often Tshombe ended a conference with U.N. officials with a friendly smile, only to walk out and hotly accuse them of all sorts of perfidy...
Accused at one time or another of being a dirty business, a brutal business, a corrupter of honest politicians, and a perverter of young men's morals, professional boxing has always managed to survive. But it might not survive being a bore. That's what it was last week...