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Directed by Marseille-born Composer-Playwright Louis Ducreux, the ambitious production had two curtains, four sets, and no fewer than 265 costumes designed by famed Painter Bernard Buffet. In the title role was the Metropolitan Opera's Regina Resnik, who has sung Carmen all over the world. Don José was U.S.-born Richard Martell, a tenor who once sang with the San Francisco Opera and has built a fine European reputation...
...gubernatorial candidates. In Waukegan, Ill., 400 Democrats gathered around a roaring bon fire at a party rally. In Amherst, Mass., on a miserable, stormy night, nearly 1,000 packed the high school auditorium to hear political speeches. In Atlanta, a group of wealthy citizens met at a candlelight buffet dinner with a Republican candidate for Congress. When he was through speaking, a woman put the question that seems most on America's mind in Election Year 1962. "What," she asked, "about Cuba...
...might just as well start packing his bags. Some 60 guests entered the L.B.J. ranch (Spring Valley division) under a spotlighted marquee, supped on beef, beans and brownies. Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy led the list at the French embassy, where Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand served a magnificent buffet with champagne. Two Kennedy sisters, Pat and Jean, were among the diners at the Douglas Dillons. There was hot crab meat for 26 at the Paul Nitzes, beef stroganoff for 40 at the Angier Biddle Dukes, ham for 30 at the Averell Harrimans. At the most exclusive dinner...
Wine & a Chorus. After the last rock barrier fell last week, the weary tunnel diggers joined high officials and journalists in a gala celebration over a huge buffet of salami, ham rolls, petits fours, 200 bottles of French champagne and 450 bottles of Italian wine. High and happy, one French worker improvised a dance with an Italian driller who poured wine and mineral water over him as others sang and clanked empty bottles in accompaniment...
Among the forces that buffet the U.S. economy, few have preoccupied economists more than the way in which U.S. merchants and manufacturers manage their inventories. Fortnight ago, the errant ways of inventory buyers came under the cold eye of the Joint Congressional Economic Committee. Historically, fluctuations in inventory buying have accentuated swings in the business cycle: in a recovery, businessmen help to create inflation by rapidly building up their inventories, and in a recession they contribute to unemployment by cutting back sharply on their orders. "Investment in inventories," lamented the Joint Committee's economic experts, "has been perverse...