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...Milne sought out Negro parents, helped them find homes and jobs in Albuquerque, placed their children in his own nonsegregated schools. Though he also refused to segregate handicapped children ("They used to herd those little dickenses into separate rooms and break their hearts"), he saw to it that his brighter students got all the extra encouragement possible. As a result, Albuquerque has chalked up something of a record in turning out young scientists and mathematicians. The number of high-school students now taking these subjects is more than ten times the national average...
...uniforms will be new and the color brighter, but the Crimson wrestling team that opens its first year of Ivy League competition this afternoon will not have its best muscles on hand. The opposition: Amherest...
Stage Magic. The Met's General Manager Rudolf Bing spent most of his money and effort on sets and costumes (by Rolf Gerard), and for once the decor onstage was brighter than the intermission melee in Sherry's bar. Highlights: ¶ Living murals in the opening tavern scene, with a pair of bacchantes astride barrels, pouring wine and beer into golden goblets and steins waved by bare, disembodied arms...
...Verdi's // Trovatore and once more affirmed her position as the world's most exciting opera singer. With the exception of one high note in her last big aria that degenerated into a sickly wobble, the whole performance gave off an incomparable glow. Perhaps the glow was brighter than ever, for Soprano Callas had just signed a contract as leading soprano next fall with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Il Trovatore's first notes, when she stood in slender profile in her crimson robe and sang of her love for an unknown troubadour (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling), until...
Overall, the general picture of U.S. business as it went into the year's final quarter could hardly have been brighter. As a hint of things to come, Bennett S. Chappie Jr., assistant executive vice president of U.S. Steel, predicted that in 1956, the United States will produce nearly $400 billion worth of goods and services, for an alltime record...