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Peace Corps Director of Selection Al Carp, in Cambridge Thursday to brief the recruiters, said that over 90 per cent of the Harvard and Radcliffe students who apply and who are medically qualified will be invited to training. Of those about 85 per cent will be asked to train for the country or region that they request. That Peace Corps invitation, Carp said, is not a guarantee that a student will be sent overseas; he noted that one in six trainees fail the training program...
...harsh, his eyes as hollow as his campaign coffers. Yet even as New Yorkers streamed to the polls, John Vliet Lindsay loped urgently from block to block, borough to borough, croaking a threnody that had become as familiar and unique to the streets of New York as the carp of cab drivers or the yawp of fire trucks...
...pachinko, or playing the pinball machines. Then came the chubby plastic dakkochan dolls (TIME, Aug. 29, 1960) that clung to girls' arms and shoulders. The latest craze is angling parlors, where patrons can drop a line into a pool and, be mused by background music, fish for carp. The fad caught on last year when the angling parlors mushroomed from a few score to a present-day 539 in the heart of the city. One parlor was installed in a former bar with the pool behind the counter and the bar stools used as perches for fishermen. Saburo Kamekura...
...down the pace between scenes as chorus members clomped around changing it from indoors to outdoors. The stage director, Philip H. Hecksher, could probably have helped the wait between scenes, but he did such a good job with the business in the scenes that it's hardly fair to carp at him for such a little thing...
...Youth's Magic Horn that he not only turned them into songs but turned the songs into symphonies. The texts are often grim or sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto, Maureen Forrester, who divide the songs and the honors between them...